Eider

#1,064 in 2025Boys' name

Feminine form of Eder

Eider has been given to 749 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #1,064 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 217 recorded.

Babies named Eider, 2025

1 in 16,300

Eider over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eider: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Eder

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eider means

Eider is a feminine form of Eder.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eider → Eder. The family’s meaning is “beautiful, handsome”, recorded in Basque with the source elements eder.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eder.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 742 boys were recorded with the name Eider between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 217 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,027 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,511 in 2020 to #1,064 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Eider between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #13,300 in 2016.

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.

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How common is Eider?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 16,300; 204 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 8,370; 0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #1,064; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 11,265 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eider 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,265 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eider. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eiders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eider was born before 2024 — so the typical Eider is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 95.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 742; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 95.1% of all recorded uses (706).

Is Eider 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: −37; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,447; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 94.0%; Peak was 2024 (217)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 56.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,027; 2024

Spellings of Eider

Eider is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 43.8% against Eider's 0.13%.

Aiden43.8%257,765
Elmer22.0%129,591
Ryder11.3%66,639
River6.7%39,676
Iker3.2%18,921
Fidel1.9%11,321
Eden1.9%10,966
Wilder1.4%8,197

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 Eider is used

Across 2016–2025, Eider was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 22,997 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Tennessee1 in 12,500
2Georgia1 in 14,286
3New Jersey1 in 14,286
4New York1 in 14,286
5Massachusetts1 in 20,000
6Texas1 in 20,000
7California1 in 25,000
8Florida1 in 25,000

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.

Eider by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #1,064
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,447
Best rank ever: #1,027; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 217 that year
First recorded: 2017
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 742
Count in 2025: 204

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,300; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 7 that year
First recorded: 2016
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 7
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Eider

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

Eidan Eiden Rider Alder Bader Edder Nader Ender Raider Elder Haider Lander Rhyder Peder Carder Stryder Sander Xzander Karder Hyder Vander Yader Thunder Ander

Sibling names for Eider

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Xochitl Chiara Malka Annelise Sapphire Alianna Hollis Khadija

For a brother

Shlomo Rishi Menachem Shimon Sami Hasan Karim Gian

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