About the name Buddy
Buddy belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Buddy first appears in Social Security records in 1893. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #202 in 1935, and in 2024 29 babies received the name — 22,516 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.