Ned
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ned
Ned is a gently old-fashioned Nancy Drew-Bobbsey Twins-era short form for Edward that sounds cooler than Ed and is enjoying a small style renaissance.
Usage of Ned in literature goes back to a Ben Johnson character in 1614, and it is also the name of the protagonist in James Fenimore Cooper's Ned Myers. In Australia, Ned Kelly is famous as a larger-than-life legendary outlaw figure. In this country, Ned Rorem is a respected modern composer.
There was a 1990s sitcom called Ned and Stacey, and other Neds have appeared in The Simpsons (neighbor Flanders), Groundhog Day and School of Rock. Ned Stark is a prominent, and unusually heroic, character in Game of Thrones, giving the name some new cultural cache, though we can't recommend using his proper name, Eddard.
Ned is also given to girls.
Pronounced NED.
As of October 2026, Ned ranked #9452 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #240 in 1890, Nameberry popularity #851.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Ned for boys
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Ned on lists
Famous Neds
- Ned RoremBoy
American composer
- Ned Payne AustinBoy
American actor
- Edward "Ned" KellyBoy
Australian bushranger and folk hero
- Edward Hugh "Ned" HanlonBoy
American basebal player
- Ned Rocknroll (born Abel Smith)Boy
nephew of Richard Branson, husband of actress Kate Winslet
- Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost IIIBoy
American baseball player and manager
- Ned WashingtonBoy
American lyricist
- Ned Thomas BeattyBoy
American actor
- Ned JarrettBoy
American NASCAR driver
- Ned EisenbergBoy
American actor
- Ned FulmerBoy
American actor and director for Buzzfeed
- Ned HepburnBoy
American writer and blogger
- Edward Miner "Ned" LamontBoy
American businessman and politician
- Nusyn "Ned" GlassBoy
Polish,American actor
- Ned BellamyBoy
American actor
- Edmund "Ned" FoleyBoy
son of actor Dave Foley
Ned in pop culture
- Nedward "Ned" FlandersBoy
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Eddard "Ned" StarkBoy
character in the Game of Thrones series
- Ned RyersonBoy
character in movie "Groundhog Day"
- Ned DorseyBoy
main character on TV's "Ned & Stacey"
- Ned the Pie MakerBoy
main character on TV's "Pushing Daisies"
- Ned BigbyBoy
character on TV's "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide"
- Ned NickersonBoy
boyfriend in the Nancy Drew series
- NedBoy
character on TV's "The Tribe"
- Ned DornegetBoy
character on TV's "NCIS"
- Ned GerblanskyBoy
character in the television series South Park
- Ned LandBoy
character in book/film "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- Ned NederlanderBoy
one of the "Three Amigos"
- Ned PlimptonBoy
character in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Ned QuartermaineBoy
character on American soap "General Hospital"
- Ned RyderBoy
character in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited"
- Ned SchneeblyBoy
character in the 2003 film School of Rock
- Nedwin "NedBoy
" character in the book series "Beyonders: A World Without Heroes"
- Ned BanksBoy
character on TV's "Ghost Whisperer"
- Ned ParkerBoy
character on Australian soap "Neighbours"
- Edward "Ned" LeedsBoy
character in the movie "Spider,Man: Homecoming"
- Ned HenryBoy
main character of Connie Willis's novel "To Say Nothing of the Dog"
- "Ned's NewtBoy
" Canadian animated series
- "The Misfortune of Being NedBoy
" animated web series
- "Waking Ned DevineBoy
" 1998 Irish film
- NedBoy
Scottish derogatory term for hooligans, louts or criminals