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Edson

#1,735 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Edson has been given to 4,692 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,735 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Edson, 2025

1 in 35,300

Edson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edson: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Edson means

Edson is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Edson is used in Portuguese (Brazilian) and English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛd.sõ/ and /ˈɛd.sən/ for Edson.

The naming story behind Edson

Edson is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Edson (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Edson is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Edson is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,692 boys were recorded with the name Edson between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2019; its best national rank was #645 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,751 in 2020 to #1,735 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,495 in 2015 to #1,735 in 2025.

How common is Edson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,735
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edson 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edson was born before 1998 — so the typical Edson is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,589
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (911).

Is Edson 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+16
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+760
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.7%
Peak was 2019 (121)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#645
1887

Spellings of Edson

Edson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 43.8% against Edson's 0.20%.

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 Edson is used

Across 2016–2025, Edson was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 16,594 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Edson around the world

Where Edson 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
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1971–2025
    #4,322
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Edson

People whose public names include Edson, 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.

Edson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,735
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 16
Best rank ever
#645
1887
Peak year
2019
121 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,692
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Edson

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

EdselEasonAnsonOrsonKysonMaisonMaysonGersonCasonGibsonVinsonCaysonDysonWatsonWessonKasonKaisonJensonElsonColsonKolsonSampsonHansonAllison

Names with a curve like Edson

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

ArmonNileIshmaelAmonZackTurnerObedEsauHenriSalomonArminLake

Sibling names for Edson

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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