Edee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Edee has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1964, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Edee, 2019
1 in 579,000
Edee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Edee?
Edee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Edee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Edees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Edee was born before 1975 — so the typical Edee is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 44.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Edee 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 1964 (9)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Edee
Edee is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 35.6% against Edee's 0.01%.
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.
Edee around the world
Where Edee 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 & Wales2005–2024#4,844in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Edee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Edee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Edee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.