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Eddy

#1,605 in 2025Boys' name

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Edward

Eddy has been given to 14,431 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #1,605 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 246 recorded.

Babies named Eddy, 2025

1 in 31,300

Eddy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eddy: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + ward, guard, through Edward

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eddy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Eddy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edward.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eddy is pronounced /ˈɛdi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,039 boys were recorded with the name Eddy between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 246 in 1956; its best national rank was #449 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,611 in 2020 to #1,605 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,440 in 2015 to #1,605 in 2025.

In the United States, 392 girls were recorded with the name Eddy between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1946; its best national rank was #2,642 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,374 in 2020 to #12,250 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,011 in 2015 to #12,250 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 Eddy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,300
106 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,605
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,679 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eddy 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 21,679 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eddys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eddy was born before 1970 — so the typical Eddy is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,085
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1950s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (2,185).

Is Eddy 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
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−165
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.1%
Peak was 1956 (246)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#449
1947

Spellings of Eddy

Eddy is not the most common spelling — Cody is, with 33.3% against Eddy's 1.6%.

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 Eddy is used

Across 2016–2025, Eddy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 13,953 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3New York1 in 10,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 12,500
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 25,000

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.

Eddy around the world

Where Eddy 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • France
    1924–2025
    #1,309
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Eddy

People whose public names include Eddy, 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.

Eddy in other languages

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

EdEddiEddieDuarteEduardEdvardEdwardEdoardoEduardoEetuEideEdijsEduartEdvárdEduardsOdoardoÉdouardEduardasEduardusIorwerth

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

Eddy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,605
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6
Best rank ever
#449
1947
Peak year
1956
246 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,039
Count in 2025
106

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,250
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 876
Best rank ever
#2,642
1946
Peak year
1946
14 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
392
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Eddy

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

BuddyTeddyEddFreddyEddieRoddyEdderRuddyEddisonEddiEddrickYiddyGeddyEddenEddielPaddyToddyAnddyEddisAddyCoddyDaddyEddyeEddin

Names with a curve like Eddy

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

VaughnKentonKirbyVanceRonnyGalenCornellJackyDenisFrankieDennyVan

Sibling names for Eddy

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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