Name: Ned

Gender: Male

Usage: Ned is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Ned are in general originating from Australia, France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Ned across the world, see Edward.

Name Meaning of Ned

Meaning: The meaning of the name Ned is: Wealth protector.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Ned: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond

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Popularity of the Name

The name Ned is ranked on the 2,732nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.

We estimate that there are at least 135800 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Ned has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Ned for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

Name Day Calendar

The name day of Ned is 12 November.

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History and Origin

Ned is an English given name, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. "Ned" may have risen from generations of children hearing "mine Ed" as "my Ned" which is an example of a process linguists call rebracketing.

Those bearing it include:

Real people:

  • Ned Alley, former Australian rules footballer
  • Ned Almond (1892–1979), United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
  • Ned Austin (1925–2007), American character actor and Screen Actors Guild- and AFTRA member
  • Ned Barkas (1901–1962), English professional footballer
  • Ned Beatty (born 1937), American actor
  • Ned Bellamy, American actor
  • Ned Block, American philosopher
  • Ned Bouhalassa, film score, television score, and electroacoustic music, composer
  • Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823-1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
  • Ned Cameron, American producer/singer/songwriter from San Francisco, California
  • Ned Catic, Australian former professional rugby league footballer
  • Ned Chaillet, radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
  • Ned Cobb (1885-1973), tenant farmer
  • Ned Collette (born 1979), Australian musician and singer-songwriter
  • Ned Crotty, MLL professional lacrosse player
  • Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), American professional baseball player
  • Ned Daly (1891–1916), Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
  • Ned Dameron, science fiction and fantasy artist
  • Ned Day (1945–1987), Las Vegas television journalist and newspaper reporter who was known for taking on mobsters who dominated Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and '80s
  • Ned Dennehy, Irish actor
  • Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and '30s
  • Ned Dowd, American film producer and former actor
  • Ned Eckersley, English cricketer
  • Ned Eisenberg, American actor known for his recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roger Kressler
  • Ned Endress (1918–2010), American basketball player
  • Ned Evett, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for playing a fretless glass-necked guitar
  • Ned Garver, American League pitcher who played from 1948 to 1961
  • Ned Glass (1906–1984), American character actor
  • Ned Goldreyer, television writer, television producer, and comedian
  • Ned Gregory (1839-1899), Australian cricketer
  • Ned Hanlan (1855–1908), professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Ned Herrmann (1922-1999), creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
  • Ned Irish (1905-1982), basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball
  • Ned Jarrett (born 1932), American race car driver
  • Ned Kelly (1850s–1880), Australian outlaw & folk hero
  • Ned Lamont (born 1954), American entrepreneur and politician
  • Ned Mandingo (born 1966), a radio personality at the Bubba the Love Sponge talk show
  • Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), American writer
  • Ned Yost (born 1955), American baseball player and manager

Fictional characters:

  • Ned (Pushing Daisies), the main character from the television series
  • Ned, in television series The Tribe
  • Ned Bigby in television series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
  • Ned Flanders in television series The Simpsons
  • Ned Gerblansky in television series South Park
  • Ned Land, major point-of-view character in novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Ned Nickerson, boyfriend in Nancy Drew novels
  • Ned Schneebly, a character from School of Rock
  • Ned Stark in novel seriesA Song of Ice and Fire
  • Ned Nederlander, one of the Three Amigos in that film
  • Ned Plimpton, in film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Ned Ryerson, in film Groundhog Day
  • Ned Dorsey, in television series Ned & Stacey

English: short form of Edward, originating in the misdivision of phrases such as mine Ed (cf. Nan). It was common in the Middle Ages and up to the 18th century, but in the 19th was almost entirely superseded in the role of short form by Ted. It is now, however, enjoying a modest revival.

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