Edir

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Эдир in KG Kyrgyzstan, KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name 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◐

Edir is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name220 records spelled Edir4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Édir, Ëdír, Édîr

31 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●

Edir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In dra-sou-pro, opposite

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

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●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 10 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edir?

We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Edir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Edir have the most bearers?

We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Edir in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edir.

How common is Edir compared with other names?

In Cape Verde, Edir is the 500th most common given name of 745 given names recorded there.

Is Edir a male or female name?

Edir 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.