Edris
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Edris has been given to 1,114 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1915, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.
Babies named Edris, 1973
1 in 503,000
Edris 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Edris over time
In 2025, Edris went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Edris?
Edris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1973
- 1 in 503,000
- 6 of 3,016,706 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 243,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1973
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 348,505 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Edris sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 348,505 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Edriss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Edris was born before 1929 — so the typical Edris is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 24.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 113
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (171).
Is Edris 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 1915 (24)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Edris
Edris is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 45.1% against Edris's 0.07%.
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 Edris is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Edris was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Edris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Edris is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Edris was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,333,921 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Virginia1 in —
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. Edris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Edris around the world
Where Edris 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 & Wales1999–2025#2,952in 2025
- France1979–2024#3,905in 2024
- Canada2009–2024#2,328in 2024
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Edris by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Edris
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Edris
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.