Eddie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eddie is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Middle English male personal name Edwy, from Old English Eadwig, literally ‘wealth-war’.

rarermore common
  • LALaos1 in 205◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 284
  • IEIreland1 in 288

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.6M ●

across 12 countries

#135 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
587 ●

14M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 321 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

EdwardLatin · English●12M records
אדוארדHebrew · Hebrew●51K records
ᲔდუარდGeorgian · Georgian●6.5K records
เอ็ดวาร์ดThai · Thai●152 records
ЭдуардCyrillic · Tajik●53 records
에드워드Hangul · Korean●16 records
ΕδουαρδοςGreek · Greek●7 records
ԷդուարդArmenian · Armenian●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Edward in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 10 more, Eduard in ES Spain, FR France, VE Venezuela and 3 more, Edy in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador, PE Peru and 2 more and אדוורד in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the Middle English male personal name Edwy, from Old English Eadwig, literally ‘wealth-war’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eddie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#42728,171622K rec.—1.5KEdward291
BR Brazil—658,697△9K rec.1 in 321659KEdy104
US United States#30615,40112M rec.1 in 541615KEdward587
AU Australia#68294,254247K rec.—394Edward263
CA Canada#37235,534225K rec.—22Edward243
PH Philippines#68207,102186K rec.——Edward153
ES Spain#441101,317△42K rec.1 in 494103KEduard156
PL Poland—101,006△458 rec.1 in 379101Kאדוורד5
FR France—79,285△3.9K rec.1 in 85679KEduard192
IT Italy#11176,44677K rec.—5.8KEdward114
DE Germany#39248,41247K rec.—5Edward175
VE Venezuela#51747,62120K rec.—2KEduard47

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.7M78%
  • Spanish132K6%
  • 76K4%
  • French41K2%
  • Portuguese18K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,656,17278%
Spanish132,2046%
76,0924%
French41,3102%
Portuguese18,2331%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eddie is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name221K records spelled Eddie7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written 'Eddie

  • a separate given name79K records spelled Eddie2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Canada

    Also written Éddie

  • Indonesian given name11K records spelled Eddie5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Ėddie, Eddîë

  • Croatian given name8.1K records spelled Eddie50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Edi, Эдди, Eddy, Еди, Addie

  • English given name2.8K records spelled Eddie51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Eddy, เอ็ดดี้, เอ็ดดี, เอดิด, เอดดี

  • a separate given name2.3K records spelled Eddie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Eddïe, E̶d̶d̶i̶e̶, ̶e̶̶d̶̶d̶̶i̶̶e̶

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eddie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Eddie (m.fl. former) är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till namn på Ed-, t.ex. → Edgar, → Edward. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 18 mars.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Pet form of jEd.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • English: pet form of ED , with the addition of the hypocoristic suffix - ie .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.5K · 1947

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Eddie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880129
1881109
1882169
1883125
1884179
1885141
1886197
1887129
1888193
1889155
1890197
1891179
1892218
1893220
1894203
1895228
1896262
1897263
1898256
1899258
1900425
1901296
1902353
1903314
1904315
1905346
1906377
1907394
1908413
1909462
1910595
1911523
1912718
1913878
19141,010
19151,124
19161,311
19171,265
19181,423
19191,660
19201,681
19211,511
19221,587
19231,597
19241,595
19251,732
19261,678
19271,858
19281,807
19291,875
19301,972
19311,959
19322,112
19332,016
19342,169
19352,281
19362,347
19372,345
19382,616
19392,511
19402,576
19412,850
19423,019
19433,281
19443,315
19453,223
19463,746
19474,457
19484,234
19494,106
19503,760
19513,748
19523,643
19533,417
19543,766
19553,781
19563,994
19574,112
19584,129
19594,248
19604,191
19614,082
19623,683
19633,354
19643,326
19652,867
19662,534
19672,281
19682,165
19692,090
19702,150
19712,025
19721,739
19731,585
19741,457
19751,389
19761,399
19771,380
19781,383
19791,364
19801,389
19811,317
19821,293
19831,169
19841,169
19851,150
19861,087
19871,094
19881,129
19891,211
19901,248
19911,178
19921,091
19931,048
1994946
1995910
1996832
1997832
1998796
1999784
2000783
2001685
2002680
2003673
2004775
2005708
2006765
2007708
2008655
2009677
2010503
2011538
2012480
2013422
2014465
2015384
2016408
2017357
2018330
2019321
2020336
2021329
2022300
2023278
2024244
2025280

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Eddie Constantine, b. 1917Eddie Fisher, b. 1928Edward Asner, b. 1929Eddie Jones, b. 1934Eddie Deezen, b. 1958Eddie Vedder, b. 1964Eddie Griffin, b. 1968Eddie Marsan, b. 1968Eddie Kaye Thomas, b. 1980Eddie Nketiah, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 100 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Eddie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020106K#516
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.9K#554
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20174.3K#2,500
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.7K#516
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.9K#496
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,191
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,594
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.1K#308
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—813#634
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—772#1,911

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,164 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eddie?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Eddie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Eddie have the most bearers?
Eddie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled edward.
How common is Eddie compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Eddie is the 42nd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Eddie a male or female name?
Eddie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eddie mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Middle English male personal name Edwy, from Old English Eadwig, literally ‘wealth-war’
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eddie” — the 42nd most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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