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Eda

#5,599 in 2025Girls' name

Riches

Eda has been given to 4,208 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,599 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Eda, 2025

1 in 151,000

Eda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eda: meaning, origin, and history

Riches

Old English

What Eda means

Eda means “riches”, associated with ead.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English ead (“riches”), also short for compound given names beginning thus, particularly Edith.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Eda is used in English, Albanian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian and Turkish. Its origins include Old English.

Eda comes through Old English ead.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eduard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eda is pronounced /iː.də/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,208 girls were recorded with the name Eda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1916; its best national rank was #313 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,917 in 2020 to #5,599 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,882 in 2015 to #5,599 in 2025.

How common is Eda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,599
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eda was born before 1925 — so the typical Eda is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,183
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (706).

Is Eda 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
+404
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+318
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+283
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.0%
Peak was 1916 (100)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#313
1885

Where Eda is used

Across 1910–2025, Eda was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,812 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Idaho1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Montana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Rhode Island1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Eda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eda around the world

Where Eda 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • France
    1910–2025
    #1,289
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Eda

People whose public names include Eda, 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.

Eda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,599
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 318
Best rank ever
#313
1885
Peak year
1916
100 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,208
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Eda

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

LedaNedaVedaJaedaSyedaFreedaEdanVaedaMedaRedaMakedaThedaAlmedaFredaSedaCledaFriedaAledaEdanaBedaOnedaEdalynZedaLaveda

Names with a curve like Eda

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

VinaElmiraLennieLillaVivaPinkieSudieRayDelphiaVallieLovieAlmeda

Sibling names for Eda

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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