Edi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ედი in GE Georgia.

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●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Edi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name134K records spelled Edi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Russia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Edi

• English given name29K records spelled Edi13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ḙḍḯ, Édí, Édi, Edí, Ëdï

• Croatian given name11K records spelled Edi50 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Poland, Czechia

  Languages: Croatian, Polish, Russian

  Also written Eddie, Эдди, Eddy, Еди, Addie

• Hungarian given name1.5K records spelled Edi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Switzerland

  Also written Édi, Édí

• a separate given name1.2K records spelled Edi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, India, Italy

  Also written Édi, Edí, Ėdi

55 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●

Edi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• healing.

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• In trk-pro, host

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In English, Initialism of electronic data interchange.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ote, say goodbye to, bid farewell

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In pon, bile, of the liver

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 81 years between 1937–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Edi Radab. 1922ATAustrian figure skater (1922–1997)
• Edi Zieglerb. 1930DEGerman cyclist (1930–2020)
• Edi Angelillob. 1961ITItalian actress (born 1961)
• Edi Ramab. 1964ALPrime Minister of Albania since 2013 (born 1964)
• Edi Pattersonb. 1972USAmerican actress
• Edi Carlos Dias Marçalb. 1974BRBrazilian association football player
• Edi Martinib. 1975ALAlbanian footballer
• Edi Gathegib. 1979KEKenyan-American actor
• Lars Stindlb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player
• Adi Gotliebb. 1992ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association footballer, who also holds Russian passport

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 544 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edi?

We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Edi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Edi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Edi in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edi.

Where is Edi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edi is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Edi compared with other names?

In Guatemala, Edi is the 492nd most common given name of 22,776 given names recorded there.

Is Edi a male or female name?

Edi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Edi mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name from Javanese