Edelweiss
#12,251 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Edelweiss has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #12,251 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Edelweiss, 2025
1 in 474,000
Edelweiss 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Edelweiss?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,251
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Edelweiss sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edelweiss. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Edelweisss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Edelweiss was born before 2020 — so the typical Edelweiss is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 57.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 86
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Edelweiss 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
- −1,751
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,760
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −102
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.88×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 2021 (11)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.0% average annual change
Edelweiss around the world
Where Edelweiss 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.
- France1986–2023#7,231in 2023
- Canada2019–2022#3,322in 2022
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Edelweiss by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Edelweiss
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Edelweiss
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.