Edinson

#11,026 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Edinson has been given to 261 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #11,026 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Edinson, 2025

1 in 553,000

Edinson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,026
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edinson 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edinson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edinsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edinson was born before 2015 — so the typical Edinson is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
261
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Choose a decade

2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Edinson 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
−5,737
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,781
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,265
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 2015 (20)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
55.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,761
2015

Spellings of Edinson

Edinson is not the most common spelling — Edison is, with 53.9% against Edinson's 1.1%.

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.

Edinson around the world

Where Edinson 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
    2022–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2014–2021
    #3,740
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Edinson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,026
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,781
Best rank ever
#4,761
2015
Peak year
2015
20 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Edinson

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

Sibling names for Edinson

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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