Ned

A male given name, form of Edward.

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Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, 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:
Ted Alley (1881-1949), former Australian rules footballer listed in some sources as Ned Alley
Edward 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 Boulting (born 1969), British sports journalist and television presenter
Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823-1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
Ned Cameron, American producer/singer/songwriter
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), Canadian professional sculler, hotelier and alderman
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 and folk hero
Ned Lamont (born 1954), American entrepreneur and politician
Ned Luke (born 1958), American actor
Ned Mandingo (born 1966), a radio personality on the Bubba the Love Sponge talk show
Ned Rorem (born 1923), American composer and diarist
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 the television series The Tribe
Ned Bigby in the television series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Ned Dorsey, in the television series Ned & Stacey
Ned Flanders in the television series The Simpsons
Ned Gerblansky, in the television series South Park
Ned Land, major point-of-view character in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Ned Nickerson, boyfriend in Nancy Drew novels
Ned Schneebly, in the 2003 film School of Rock
Ned Stark in the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO TV adaptation Game of Thrones
Ned Nederlander, one of the Three Amigos in that film
Ned Plimpton, in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Ned Quartermaine in "General Hospital"
Ned Ryder, in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
Ned Ryerson, in the film Groundhog Day
Ned, short for Nedwin, in the book series "Beyonders:_A_World_Without_Heroes"
Uncle Ned, Character in the song "Uncle Ned" performed by the rock band Point Blank.

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Masc. proper name, a familiar abbreviation of Edward. Related: Neddy.

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Wealth protector, wealthy guardian.

Edna, Edin, Edward, Eden

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ned Kelly	1855	Outlaw from Australia
2	Eddard Stark		A Song of Ice and Fire character
3	Ned Beatty	1937	American actor (1937)
4	Ned Flanders		Fictional character from the The Simpsons franchise
5	Ned Leeds		Comic book character
6	Ned Yost	1955	American baseball player and manager
7	Ned Dennehy	1965	Irish actor
8	Ned Vizzini	1981	American writer
9	Ned Luke	1958	American actor
10	Ned Benson	1977	Film director
11	Ned Ludd
12	Ned Wertimer	1923	American actor
13	Ned Rorem	1923	American composer
14	Ned Jarrett	1932	American racecar driver
15	Ned Glass	1906	Actor
16	Ned Maddrell	1877	British fisherman
17	Ned Eisenberg	1957	American actor
18	Ned Bellamy	1957	American actor
19	Ned Vaughn	1964	American actor
20	Ned Washington	1901	American composer
21	Ned Young	1766	British sailor, mutineer from the HMS Bounty
22	Nelson Ned	1947	Brazilian musician
23	Ned Buntline	1821	American novelist
24	Ned Colletti	1954	American baseball executive
25	Ned Tanen	1931	American film studio executive
26	Ned Porteous
27	Ned Garver	1925	American baseball player
28	Ned Block	1942	American philosopher
29	Ned Lamont	1954	American businessman and politician
30	Ned Sparks	1883	Actor
31	Ned Sherrin	1931	Author and broadcaster
32	Ned Romero	1925	American actor
33	Ned Zelić	1971	Australian soccer player
34	Ned Dowd	1950	Film producer
35	Ned Grabavoy	1983	Professional soccer player
36	Ned
37	Ned Doheny	1948	American musician
38	Ned Parker
39	Ned Miller	1925	American musician
40	Ned Boulting	1969	British sports commentator
41	Ned Christie	1852	Cherokee leader
42	Ned McWherter	1930	Governor of Tennessee & Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives
43	Ned Napier		Australian actor
44	Ned Brower	1978	American musician
45	Ned Lagin	1949	American musician, artist and scientist
46	Ned Overend	1955	American racing cyclist
47	Ned Hanlan	1855	Professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman
48	Ned Sublette	1951	American singer
49	Ned Irish	1905	American basketball team owner
50	Ned Martin	1923	American sportscaster
51	Ned Steinberger	1948	American inventor
52	Ned Randolph	1942	American politician
53	Ned Raggett	1971	American music critic
54	Ned Ryun	1973	American activist
55	Ned Chaillet	1944	Radio drama director, Radio producer, writer, journalist
56	Ned Locke	1919	American television personality
57	Ned Williamson	1857	Major League Baseball player
58	Ned Herrmann	1922	Scientist in the section of creative thinking
59	Ned Crotty	1986	American lacrosse player
60	Ned Harkness	1921	American ice hockey coach
61	Ned Kahn		American artist
62	Ned Goodman		Chancellor of Brock University
63	Ned Beauman	1985	British novelist
64	Ned McCreery	1945	Ulster loyalist
65	Ned Bolcar	1967	American football linebacker
66	Ned Brooks	1901	American journalist
67	Ned Garvin	1874	American baseball player
68	Ned Blackhawk	1970	American historian
69	Ned Ward	1667	English writer
70	Ned Kock	1964	American philosopher
71	Ned Hanigan	1995
72	Ned Cameron	1989	American record producer and singer-songwriter
73	Ned Schmidtke	1942	American actor
74	Ned Calmer	1907	American journalist and writer
75	Ned Doig	1866	Scottish footballer
76	Ned Manning	1950	Australian actor and playwright
77	Ned Cobb	1885	American activist
78	Ned Rothenberg	1956	American composer
79	Ned Scott	1907	American photographer
80	Ned Cuthbert	1845	American baseball player
81	Ned Temko	1952	American journalist
82	Ned Freed	1959	American internet writer
83	Ned Bell
84	Ned Collette	1979	Australian musician
85	Ned Wayburn	1874	American choreographer
86	Ned Eckersley	1989	Cricketer
87	Ned Hanlon	1887	Australian politician
88	Ned Lukacevic	1986	Serbian ice hockey player
89	Ned Hughes	1881	New Zealand rugby union player
90	Ned Land		Character created by Jules Verne
91	Ned Catic	1978	Australian rugby league player
92	Ned O'Gorman	1929	American poet and educator
93	Ned Haig	1858	Inventor of rugby sevens
94	Ned Martel
95	Ned Austin	1925	American actor
96	Ned Wulk	1920	American basketball coach
97	Ned Day	1945	American journalist
98	Ned Dameron		Artist
99	Ned Liddell	1878	English footballer and manager
100	Ned Touchstone	1926	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
101	Larry Ned	1978	American football player
102	Ned R. Healy	1905	American politician
103	Ned O'Keeffe	1942	Irish politician
104	Ned Goldreyer		Television writer, producer and comedian
105	Ned Roberto		Filipino businessman
106	Ned Shank	1956	American writer
107	Ned O'Sullivan	1950	Irish politician
108	Ned Pines	1905	Publisher
109	Ned Gregory	1839	Australian cricketer
110	Ned Fairchild	1929	American musician
111	Ned Wingreen
112	Ned Myers	1793	American sailor
113	Ned Barkas	1901	Footballer
114	Ned Norris Jr.	1955	Chairman of the Tohono O'odham
115	Ned Bouhalassa	1962	Canadian composer
116	Ned Pratt	1964	Canadian photographer
117	Ned Goodwin	1969	Sommelier
118	Ned Mathews	1918	American football player
119	Ned Balbo	1959	American writer
120	Ned Evett	1967	American guitarist
121	Ned Justeen Azemia	1997
122	Ned Hastings	1966	American television producer
123	Edward (Ned) Lerner
124	Nathan "Ned" Miller	1899	Composer, Actor, Singer, Music Publisher
125	Ned Power	1929	Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
126	Ned H. Roberts	1866
127	Ned Byrne	1948	Irish hurler
128	Ned McKendry	1992	Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games gold medallist
129	Ned Stonehouse	1902	American theologian
130	Ned McGowan	1970	Dutch composer
131	Ned Marin	1896	American producer and screenwriter
132	Ned Buggy	1948	Irish hurler
133	Ned Hollister	1876	American zoologist
134	Ned Sutton	1868	Australian rules footballer
135	Ned Wever	1902	Actor
136	Ned Crabb	1939
137	Ned Crompton	1889	American baseball player
138	Ned Barry	1905	New Zealand rugby union player
139	Ned Weir	1910	Irish footballer and manager
140	Ned Zeman	1966	American screenwriter
141	Ned Harris	1916	American baseball player
142	Ned Wenman	1803	Cricketer
143	Ned Davis	1886	Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
144	Ned Rea	1944	Irish hurler
145	Ned Painter	1784	English boxer
146	Ned Grey	1896	Hurler
147	Ned Connor	1850	Major League Baseball player
148	Ned Baird	1864	Cavalry officer, regular British Army; horse trainer
149	Ned McDonald	1910	American football coach
150	Ned Shillington	1944	Canadian politician
151	Ned C. Hill	1945	American academic
152	Ned Havern	1982	American ice hockey player American ice hockey player
153	Ned Parfett	1896
154	Ned Cole	1917
155	Ned Abraham	1961
156	Ned Ambler	1969	American filmmaker and photographer
157	Ned Skeldon		Politician
158	Ned Endress	1918	American basketball player
159	Ned McGehee	1907	American sports coach
160	Ned Buyukmihci		American veterinarian
161	Ned Bowe	1866	Irish hurler
162	Handsome Ned	1957
163	Ned Charles	1957	Footballer
164	Ned Lyons		American gang member
165	Ned Wheeler	1932	Irish hurler
166	Ned Polsky	1928	American writer
167	Ned Bligh	1864	Major League Baseball player
168	Ned Roberts	1867	Welsh rugby union player
169	Ned Kirby	1949	Gaelic football player
170	Ned Bastille	2000	American film editor
171	Ned Hayes	1876	Irish hurler
172	Ned Urvoas
173	Ned Stephenson	1832	English county cricketer
174	Ned Parata	1879	New Zealand rugby union administrator
175	Ned Officer	1869	Australian rules footballer
176	Ned Gerard	1955	Olympic shooter
177	Ned Hender		Australian footballer
178	Ned Quinn	1923	Irish hurler
179	Ned Ryan		Irish hurler
180	Ned Gerblansky		Fictional human
181	Ned Kavanagh	1925	Irish hurler
182	Ned Lander
183	Ned Jenkins	1904	Welsh rugby union player
184	Ned Dickens	1959	Canadian playwright
185	Ned Merriam	1884	American athlete
186	Ned Eames		Boston non-profit youth development program that includes tennis
187	Ed Brookes	1881	Irish footballer
188	Ned Stringer		English footballer
189	Ned Tate	1901	English footballer
190	Ned McSweeney	1903	Australian rules footballer
191	Ned Doyle	1877	Irish hurler
192	Ned Nelson	1911	American baseball player
193	Ned Thomas	1936	British writer and literary critic
194	Ned Colfer	1941	Irish hurler
195	Ned Porter	1905	American Major League Baseball player, pitcher
196	Ned Courtney
197	Ned Brennan	1920	Irish politician
198	Ned Thompson	1910	Sports player and coach
199	Ned Sale	1883	New Zealand cricketer
200	Ned Bromley	1869	English footballer