as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: originally a short form of the nickname or vocabulary word buddy ‘friend’, which may be an alteration, perhaps a nursery form, of brother, or else derived from the Scottish Gaelic vocative case a bhodaich ‘old man’.
| 1,077th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,780
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Bud per capita
- 1931
- marked the height of its popularity
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