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Eduard

#3,146 in 2025Boys' name

Happiness, prosperity + guard, through Édouard

Eduard has been given to 1,885 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #3,146 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Eduard, 2025

1 in 87,200

Eduard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eduard: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, prosperity + guard, through Édouard

French and English

What Eduard means

Eduard belongs to the name family reached through Eduard → Édouard → Edouard → Edward → Ēadweard. Its meaning is “happiness, prosperity + guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eduard is used in English, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, German and Romanian and additional language sections. Its origins include French and English.

Eduard comes through French Édouard.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edward, Édouard, Edouard and Ēadweard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Eduard is pronounced [ə.ðuˈart].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,885 boys were recorded with the name Eduard between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,042 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,992 in 2020 to #3,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,311 in 2015 to #3,146 in 2025.

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 Eduard?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,146
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eduard 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eduard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eduards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eduard was born before 1996 — so the typical Eduard is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,632
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (323).

Is Eduard 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
−24
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−154
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+165
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.4%
Peak was 2006 (39)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,042
1902

Spellings of Eduard

Eduard is not the most common spelling — Edward is, with 82.1% against Eduard's 0.12%.

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 Eduard is used

Across 1910–2025, Eduard was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 161,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Eduard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eduard around the world

Where Eduard 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
    1999–2025
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2017
    #415
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2007–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1903–2025
    #2,184
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eduard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 154
Best rank ever
#1,042
1902
Peak year
2006
39 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,885
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Eduard

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

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Sibling names for Eduard

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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