Edson
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edson is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
- BRBrazil1 in 541◐
- AOAngola1 in 1.4K
- BOBolivia1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈399K ●
- #346 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 266 ●
- 1 in 541 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
369K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
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 Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 7 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #65 | 391,040 | 254K rec. | 1 in 541 | 432K | Edson | 218 |
| PE Peru | #502 | 59,837 | 48K rec. | — | — | Edson | 79 |
| MX Mexico | #814 | 27,091 | 19K rec. | — | 39 | Edson | 157 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6,279 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Edson | 42 |
| AR Argentina | — | 6,151 | 3.4K rec. | — | 4 | Edson | 48 |
| US United States | — | 5,477 | 20K rec. | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Edson | 266 |
| CL Chile | #893 | 5,162 | 704 rec. | — | 6 | Edson | 64 |
| BO Bolivia | #27 | 4,266 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Edson | 43 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,074 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Edson | 38 |
| CO Colombia | — | 3,106 | 952 rec. | — | 1 | Edson | 64 |
| TZ Tanzania | #424 | 1,981 | 468 rec. | — | 1 | Edson | 34 |
| AO Angola | #26 | 1,637 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Edson | 38 |
Roughly 391K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 541). 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●
- Portuguese6.8M92%
- English421K6%
- Spanish115K2%
- Swahili7K1%
- ptbr5.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 6,823,659 | 92% |
| English | 420,830 | 6% |
| Spanish | 114,854 | 2% |
| Swahili | 7,045 | 1% |
| ptbr | 5,117 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 6 |
| 1881 | 7 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 8 |
| 1884 | 5 |
| 1887 | 9 |
| 1888 | 7 |
| 1891 | 6 |
| 1892 | 10 |
| 1894 | 5 |
| 1895 | 6 |
| 1896 | 8 |
| 1898 | 5 |
| 1900 | 6 |
| 1904 | 8 |
| 1906 | 7 |
| 1907 | 8 |
| 1908 | 8 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 16 |
| 1913 | 23 |
| 1914 | 31 |
| 1915 | 36 |
| 1916 | 30 |
| 1917 | 48 |
| 1918 | 28 |
| 1919 | 32 |
| 1920 | 30 |
| 1921 | 35 |
| 1922 | 35 |
| 1923 | 35 |
| 1924 | 30 |
| 1925 | 26 |
| 1926 | 25 |
| 1927 | 28 |
| 1928 | 25 |
| 1929 | 27 |
| 1930 | 29 |
| 1931 | 20 |
| 1932 | 22 |
| 1933 | 16 |
| 1934 | 21 |
| 1935 | 21 |
| 1936 | 22 |
| 1937 | 25 |
| 1938 | 21 |
| 1939 | 20 |
| 1940 | 11 |
| 1941 | 23 |
| 1942 | 14 |
| 1943 | 24 |
| 1944 | 28 |
| 1945 | 22 |
| 1946 | 21 |
| 1947 | 22 |
| 1948 | 17 |
| 1949 | 24 |
| 1950 | 16 |
| 1951 | 27 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 14 |
| 1955 | 16 |
| 1956 | 18 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 15 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 17 |
| 1964 | 12 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 16 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 13 |
| 1974 | 13 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 18 |
| 1977 | 20 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 23 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 40 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 23 |
| 1985 | 24 |
| 1986 | 37 |
| 1987 | 27 |
| 1988 | 32 |
| 1989 | 45 |
| 1990 | 52 |
| 1991 | 41 |
| 1992 | 49 |
| 1993 | 61 |
| 1994 | 49 |
| 1995 | 62 |
| 1996 | 69 |
| 1997 | 91 |
| 1998 | 89 |
| 1999 | 66 |
| 2000 | 93 |
| 2001 | 94 |
| 2002 | 110 |
| 2003 | 81 |
| 2004 | 81 |
| 2005 | 92 |
| 2006 | 111 |
| 2007 | 89 |
| 2008 | 91 |
| 2009 | 69 |
| 2010 | 94 |
| 2011 | 66 |
| 2012 | 60 |
| 2013 | 71 |
| 2014 | 56 |
| 2015 | 50 |
| 2016 | 57 |
| 2017 | 88 |
| 2018 | 86 |
| 2019 | 121 |
| 2020 | 88 |
| 2021 | 83 |
| 2022 | 118 |
| 2023 | 116 |
| 2024 | 89 |
| 2025 | 94 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 133 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●
- Edson Strollb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929-2011)
- Peléb. 1940BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (1940–2022)
- Edson Tavaresb. 1956BRBrazilian association football player and manager
- Edson Rodriguesb. 1967BRBrazilian association football player
- Edson Buddleb. 1981USAmerican soccer player
- Edson Braafheidb. 1983NLDutch association football player (born 1983)
- Edson Barbozab. 1986BRBrazilian martial artist
- Edson André Sitoeb. 1988MZMozambican footballer
- Edson dos Santos Reisb. 1990BRBrazilian association football player
- Edson Álvarezb. 1997MXMexican association football player
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 68 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 432K | #100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 391K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 390K | #71 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.5K | #3,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,367 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.3K | #632 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #71 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 416 | #939 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 326 | #6,228 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 550 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Edson?
- We estimate roughly 399 thousand people bear Edson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Edson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 391 thousand people bear Edson in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edson.
- Where is Edson most common?
- Edson is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 541 people carrying it.
- How common is Edson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Edson is the 65th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Edson a male or female name?
- Edson 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 Edson mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
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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.
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, “Edson” — the 65th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.