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Edd

Boys' name

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Ed

Edd has been given to 5,451 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 163 recorded.

Babies named Edd, 2006

1 in 791,000

Edd over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edd: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Ed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edd means

Edd belongs to the name family reached through Edd → Ed → Edward. Its meaning is “wealth, riches + ward, guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edd is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ed and Edward.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,438 boys were recorded with the name Edd between 1880 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 163 in 1919; its best national rank was #199 in 1887.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Edd between 1919 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1930; its best national rank was #3,759 in 1930.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Edd?

Edd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edd 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edd was born before 1922 — so the typical Edd is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
701
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (1,034).

Is Edd 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (163)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#199
1887

Where Edd is used

Across 1910–2025, Edd was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 29,734 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 8,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 10,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 10,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 11,111
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 20,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333

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. Edd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edd around the world

Where Edd 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.

  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Edd

People whose public names include Edd, 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.

Edd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#199
1887
Peak year
1919
163 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5,438
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,759
1930
Peak year
1930
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Edd

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

EddyJeddEdderTeddEddieEddisonReddEddiEddrickEddenEddielEddisZeddEddyeEddinEddwardEddysonFreddEddiebertoJaredd

Names with a curve like Edd

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

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Sibling names for Edd

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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