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Eamon

#1,646 in 2025Boys' name

Happiness, prosperity + protection, protector, through Éamann

Eamon has been given to 4,743 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #1,646 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 182 recorded.

Babies named Eamon, 2025

1 in 32,500

Eamon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eamon: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, prosperity + protection, protector, through Éamann

Irish and Old English

What Eamon means

Eamon belongs to the name family reached through Eamon → Éamann → Ēadmund. Its meaning is “happiness, prosperity + protection, protector”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Irish Éamann (“Edmund”). Doublet of Edmund.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Eamon (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Eamon is used in English. Its origins include Irish and Old English.

Eamon comes through Irish Éamann.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edmund, Éamann and Ēadmund.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eamon is pronounced /ˈeɪ̯.mən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,743 boys were recorded with the name Eamon between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 182 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,078 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,427 in 2020 to #1,646 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,274 in 2015 to #1,646 in 2025.

How common is Eamon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,500
102 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,646
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,530 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eamon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,530 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eamon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eamons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eamon was born before 2008 — so the typical Eamon is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,712
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,481).

Is Eamon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−141
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−219
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−372
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.0%
Peak was 2016 (182)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,078
2017

Spellings of Eamon

Eamon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 35.6% against Eamon's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eamon is used

Across 2016–2025, Eamon was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 15,161 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

131 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,226
  2. 2New York1 in 6,250
  3. 3Virginia1 in 6,250
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 9,091
  6. 6Washington1 in 10,000
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 11,111
  8. 8Maryland1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Eamon around the world

Where Eamon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2022
    #590
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #314
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #348
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2004
    #4,787
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2013
    #276
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Eamon

People whose public names include Eamon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eamon in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eamon. Linked forms have their own page here.

EamonnÉamonn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eamon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,646
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 219
Best rank ever
#1,078
2017
Peak year
2016
182 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,743
Count in 2025
102

Names similar to Eamon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmmonArmonJamonWaymonEamonnShimonHarmonAmonRaymonDaemonSalomonDemonDaymonDesmonEamesKemonHermonTimonSymonAlmonLamonDezmonDaimonLeamon

Names with a curve like Eamon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eamon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmarSamiTorinImmanuelJaiTajNeelBrighamHusseinKeelanAvrohomElan

Sibling names for Eamon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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