Eduard

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Эдуард in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and 6 more, Edward in US United States, PL Poland, NL Netherlands and 3 more, Едуард in UA Ukraine and Edvard in SE Sweden.

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 5 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◐

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

• German given name239K records spelled Eduard21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, Germany, United States, Venezuela

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written Eduaerd, Ėduard, Eduárd, Edueard, Edúard

• Estonian given name15K records spelled Eduard4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Edüärd, Ėduard

• Romanian given name9.8K records spelled Eduard3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

• a separate given name6.3K records spelled Eduard5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine

  Also written Ėduard, Èduard, Éduard, Ēduard

• Norwegian Bokmål given name3.4K records spelled Eduard7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Russia, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Èduard

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●

Eduard 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 Azerbaijani, A transliteration of the English male given name Edward

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

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1902–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Wilhelm Eduard Weberb. 1804DEGerman physicist (1804–1891)
• Eduard Zellerb. 1814DEGerman philosopher and theologian (1814-1908)
• Otto von Bismarckb. 1815DEnot in their usual nameGerman statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Ludwig Boltzmannb. 1844ATnot in their usual nameAustrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
• Eduard Bernsteinb. 1850DEGerman politician and theorist (1850–1932)
• Eduard Buchnerb. 1860DEGerman chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
• Philipp Lenardb. 1862DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist (1862–1947)
• Edward Thorndikeb. 1874USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychologist
• Eduard Shevardnadzeb. 1928GESoviet and Georgian politician and diplomat, Soviet foreign minister and second President of Georgia (1995–2003)
• Eduard Uspenskyb. 1937RURussian writer (1937–2018)

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 · 702 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eduard?

We estimate roughly 872 thousand people bear Eduard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Eduard have the most bearers?

Eduard is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled эдуард.

How common is Eduard compared with other names?

In Russia, Eduard is the 82nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Eduard a male or female name?

Eduard 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 Eduard mean?

Recorded meaning: aus dem Französischen übernomme­ ner männl.