Todd is an English surname from the Middle English todde, which means "fox", and was probably first given as a nickname to someone sly or red-haired. It became a first name in the 20th century and was a quintessential name for American boys of the 1960s and 1970s. Todd stood at number 425 in 2000, slipped out of the US top 1000 in the mid-2010s and ranks at number 1618 in 2025.