Edouard
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edouard is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Martinique it is the 76th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Germanic aud 'wealth' + ward 'guard'; French form of Edward.
- MQMartinique1 in 468◐
- GPGuadeloupe1 in 520
- FRFrance1 in 856
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈81K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 352 ●
- 1 in 856 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
151K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Édouard in CI Côte d’Ivoire, SN Senegal.
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 Germanic aud 'wealth' + ward 'guard'; French form of Edward.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #270 | 79,285 | 126K rec. | 1 in 856 | 79K | Edouard | 352 |
| BE Belgium | #382 | 4,803 | 5.1K rec. | — | 40 | Edouard | 107 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,610 | 1.5K rec. | — | 1 | Edouard | 108 |
| MQ Martinique | #76 | 1,385 | 67 rec. | — | 5 | Edouard | 15 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #94 | 1,192 | 28 rec. | — | 5 | Edouard | 14 |
| US United States | — | 1,185 | 13K rec. | 1 in 281K | 2.8K | Edouard | 216 |
| CH Switzerland | #809 | 768 | 299 rec. | — | 20 | Edouard | 66 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 730 | 547 rec. | — | — | Edouard | 95 |
| CM Cameroon | #189 | 571 | 593 rec. | — | — | Edouard | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 326△ | 86 rec. | 1 in 53K | 326 | — | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 137 | 345 rec. | 1 in 74K | 137 | — | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 111 | 654 rec. | 1 in 451K | 111 | Edouard | 58 |
Roughly 79K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 856). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French418K91%
- English21K5%
- Spanish2.2K1%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2K1%
- Portuguese1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 418,399 | 91% |
| English | 21,488 | 5% |
| Spanish | 2,191 | 1% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,976 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 1,462 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Edouard 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.
In French, French form of Edward, from Old English ‘wealth’ + ‘guardian’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, from Old English Edward, 'wealth + guardian'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
From English. See }Edward in main dictionary. Eléonore 2 From Old Provencal. See Elea- _ hor in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, a male given name, a typographical variant of Édouard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme française d’Edward; d’origine germanique, « richesse, garde/protection ». Saint: 5 janvier (Édouard le Confesseur).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 10 |
| 1901 | 10 |
| 1902 | 10 |
| 1903 | 10 |
| 1904 | 10 |
| 1905 | 10 |
| 1906 | 10 |
| 1907 | 10 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 10 |
| 1910 | 20 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 10 |
| 1913 | 10 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 15 |
| 1916 | 15 |
| 1917 | 10 |
| 1918 | 15 |
| 1919 | 10 |
| 1920 | 15 |
| 1921 | 10 |
| 1922 | 20 |
| 1923 | 10 |
| 1924 | 15 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 15 |
| 1927 | 10 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1932 | 15 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 15 |
| 1935 | 10 |
| 1936 | 15 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 15 |
| 1939 | 15 |
| 1940 | 15 |
| 1941 | 15 |
| 1942 | 15 |
| 1943 | 15 |
| 1944 | 15 |
| 1945 | 15 |
| 1946 | 15 |
| 1947 | 25 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 25 |
| 1950 | 25 |
| 1951 | 20 |
| 1952 | 15 |
| 1953 | 20 |
| 1954 | 15 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 25 |
| 1957 | 15 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 20 |
| 1960 | 20 |
| 1961 | 25 |
| 1962 | 30 |
| 1963 | 25 |
| 1964 | 25 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 15 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 89 years between 1900–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Henry III of Franceb. 1551FRnot in their usual nameKing of France from 1574 to 1589 (1551-1589)
- Édouard Manetb. 1832FRFrench painter (1832–1883)
- Émile Zolab. 1840FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
- Georges Gilles de la Touretteb. 1857FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician (1857-1904)
- Charles Édouard Guillaumeb. 1861CHSwiss physicist (1861-1938)
- Georges Lemaîtreb. 1894BEnot in their usual nameBelgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
- Édouard Balladurb. 1929FR91st Prime Minister of France
- Michel Mayorb. 1942CHnot in their usual nameSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
- Eddy Merckxb. 1945BEnot in their usual nameBelgian cyclist (born 1945)
- Édouard Philippeb. 1970FRPrime Minister of France from 2017 to 2020
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 77 sources across 43 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 603 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Edouard?
- We estimate roughly 81 thousand people bear Edouard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Edouard have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 79 thousand people bear Edouard in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edouard.
- How common is Edouard compared with other names?
- In France, Edouard is the 270th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Edouard a male or female name?
- Edouard 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 Edouard mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Germanic aud 'wealth' + ward 'guard'; French form of Edward.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edouard” — the 270th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.