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Edom

Girls' name

Red, through Ἐδώμ

Edom has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2014, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Edom, 2021

1 in 484,000

Edom over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edom: meaning, origin, and history

Red, through Ἐδώμ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edom means

Edom belongs to the name family reached through Edom → Ἐδώμ → אֱדוֹם. Its meaning is “red”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edom is used in Latin and Scots.

Edom comes through Koine Greek Ἐδώμ and Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aidam, Ἐδώμ and אֱדוֹם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Edom is pronounced [ˈɛ.dõː].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Edom between 2005 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2014; its best national rank was #9,721 in 2014.

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 Edom?

Edom had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edom 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edoms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edom was born before 2014 — so the typical Edom is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 75.9% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Edom 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (11)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,721
2014

Spellings of Edom

Edom is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 79.7% against Edom's 0.02%.

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.

Edom around the world

Where Edom 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
    2008–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Edom 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
#9,721
2014
Peak year
2014
11 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Edom

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

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Sibling names for Edom

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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