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Edison

#870 in 2025Boys' name

Son of Eda 2 or son of Adam

Edison has been given to 12,738 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #870 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 522 recorded.

Babies named Edison, 2025

1 in 12,000

Edison over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edison: meaning, origin, and history

Son of Eda 2 or son of Adam

English and surname transfer

What Edison means

Edison means “son of Eda 2 or son of Adam”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edison is used in Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include English and surname transfer.

Edison comes through English Edison.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Edison is pronounced /ˈʔedison/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,522 boys were recorded with the name Edison between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 522 in 2018; its best national rank was #538 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #599 in 2020 to #870 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #635 in 2015 to #870 in 2025.

In the United States, 216 girls were recorded with the name Edison between 2003 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,377 in 2018.

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 Edison?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,000
276 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,190
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#870
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,327 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edison 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,327 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edison. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edisons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edison was born before 2009 — so the typical Edison is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,968
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (3,936).

Is Edison 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
−43
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−271
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−235
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2018 (522)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#538
1917

Spellings of Edison

Edison is not the most common spelling — Dion is, with 20.0% against Edison's 13.3%.

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 Edison is used

Across 2016–2025, Edison was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,176 boys, against 1 in 4,032 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

485 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,176
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 1,429
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 1,449
  4. 4Michigan1 in 2,174
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 2,500
  6. 6Iowa1 in 2,632
  7. 7Utah1 in 2,632
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 2,703

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.

Geographically, Edison is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 74% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Edison around the world

Where Edison 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
    #507
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #779
    in 2022
  • France
    1986–2025
    #3,497
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #738
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Edison

People whose public names include Edison, 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.

Edison by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#870
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 271
Best rank ever
#538
1917
Peak year
2018
522 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,522
Count in 2025
276

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,377
2018
Peak year
2018
32 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Edison

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

EdinsonEdilsonSamsonJudsonBensonKaysonColsonLawsonKarsonKaisonWatsonCaysonAddisonGibsonCasonBronsonKasonMaysonStetsonKysonMaisonJaysonGersonEdisson

Names with a curve like Edison

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

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Sibling names for Edison

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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