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Edda

#10,314 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Edda has been given to 735 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #10,314 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1930, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Edda, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edda: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edda means

Edda has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Edda

A separate documented entry treats Edda as a form of Hedda. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Edda records a proposed meaning of great-grandmother.

Origin, language, and formation

Edda is used in Faroese, German, Icelandic and Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Edda is pronounced /ˈed.dɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 735 girls were recorded with the name Edda between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,470 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,892 in 2020 to #10,314 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,590 in 2015 to #10,314 in 2025.

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 Edda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,314
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edda 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eddas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edda was born before 1951 — so the typical Edda is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
385
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1930s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Edda 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
−4,087
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,578
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,724
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.9%
Peak was 1930 (22)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,470
1895

Spellings of Edda

Edda is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 29.1% against Edda's 0.03%.

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 Edda is used

Across 1910–2025, Edda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 416,880 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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

Edda around the world

Where Edda 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1926–2024
    #6,696
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Edda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,314
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,578
Best rank ever
#1,470
1895
Peak year
1930
22 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
735
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Edda

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

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Sibling names for Edda

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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