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Edvard

#11,029 in 2025Boys' name

Guard of (the) riches, guard of wealth

Edvard has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #11,029 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Edvard, 2025

1 in 553,000

Edvard over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edvard: meaning, origin, and history

Guard of (the) riches, guard of wealth

English and Old English

What Edvard means

Edvard means “guard of (the) riches, guard of wealth”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edvard is used in Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Slovene and Swedish. Its origins include English and Old English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edward, Audvard and Eðvarð.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Edvard is pronounced /ˈedʋɑrd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Edvard between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #9,415 in 1996.

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 Edvard?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,029
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edvard 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edvard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edvards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edvard was born before 2017 — so the typical Edvard is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Edvard 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (6)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,415
1996

Spellings of Edvard

Edvard is not the most common spelling — Edward is, with 82.1% against Edvard's <0.01%.

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.

Edvard around the world

Where Edvard 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
    2010–2019
    #3,411
    in 2019
  • France
    1901–2025
    #5,939
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #66
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Edvard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,415
1996
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Edvard

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

MallardStuardArmardWilardDanardLewardMilardBonardDonardHazardMynardIchardJamardEvardNorwardKinardGernardGiscardClinardBrevardDowardManardEddwardJarard

Sibling names for Edvard

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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