Edmonia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Edmonia has been given to 899 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1922, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Edmonia, 1960

1 in 831,000

Edmonia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edmonia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edmonia means

Edmonia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Edmonia is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 899 girls were recorded with the name Edmonia between 1880 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1922; its best national rank was #523 in 1880.

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.

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How common is Edmonia?

Edmonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1960: 1 in 831,000; 5 of 4,153,934 births
Among girls only: 1 in 404,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1960: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 575,859 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Edmonia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1960 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 575,859 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edmonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edmonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edmonia was born before 1919 — so the typical Edmonia is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 43; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Edmonia 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (29)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #523; 1880

Spellings of Edmonia

Edmonia is not the most common spelling — Emoni is, with 35.7% against Edmonia's 11.1%.

Emoni35.7%2,891
Erminia18.5%1,497
Donia15.0%1,219
Emonie12.7%1,031
Edmonia11.1%899
Sedonia7.0%571

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 Edmonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Edmonia was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 45,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

23 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Virginia1 in 33,333
2Louisiana1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Edmonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edmonia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #523; 1880
Peak year: 1922; 29 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1960
All-time count: 899
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Edmonia

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

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Sibling names for Edmonia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Rubie Tressie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Cletus Columbus Olen Hoyt

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