Edman
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Edman has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1916, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Edman, 2008
1 in 655,000
Edman 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Edman?
Edman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Edman sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Edmans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Edman was born before 1929 — so the typical Edman is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 31.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Edman 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 1916 (11)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Edman
Edman is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 24.8% against Edman'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.
Edman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Edman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Edman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.