Edvard

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Edvard is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., schwedische und nor­ wegische Form von.

rarermore common
  • LALaos1 in 205◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 284
  • IEIreland1 in 288

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.6M ●

across 12 countries

#135 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
587 ●

14M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 321 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

EdwardLatin · English●12M records
אדוארדHebrew · Hebrew●51K records
ᲔდუარდGeorgian · Georgian●6.5K records
เอ็ดวาร์ดThai · Thai●152 records
ЭдуардCyrillic · Tajik●53 records
에드워드Hangul · Korean●16 records
ΕδουαρδοςGreek · Greek●7 records
ԷդուարդArmenian · Armenian●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Edward in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 10 more, Eduard in ES Spain, FR France, VE Venezuela and 3 more, Edy in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador, PE Peru and 2 more and אדוורד in PL Poland.

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●

recorded in German

männl. Vom., schwedische und nor­ wegische Form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Edvard is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#42728,171622K rec.—1.5KEdward291
BR Brazil—658,697△9K rec.1 in 321659KEdy104
US United States#30615,40112M rec.1 in 541615KEdward587
AU Australia#68294,254247K rec.—394Edward263
CA Canada#37235,534225K rec.—22Edward243
PH Philippines#68207,102186K rec.——Edward153
ES Spain#441101,317△42K rec.1 in 494103KEduard156
PL Poland—101,006△458 rec.1 in 379101Kאדוורד5
FR France—79,285△3.9K rec.1 in 85679KEduard192
IT Italy#11176,44677K rec.—5.8KEdward114
DE Germany#39248,41247K rec.—5Edward175
VE Venezuela#51747,62120K rec.—2KEduard47

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish74K58%
  • Norwegian Bokmål13K10%
  • Portuguese7.1K6%
  • Czech5.1K4%
  • Hungarian4.8K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish74,16258%
Norwegian Bokmål12,75410%
Portuguese7,1386%
Czech5,0824%
Hungarian4,7814%

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◐

Edvard is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name23K records spelled Edvard12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, English

    Also written Edvárd

  • Czech given name12K records spelled Edvard31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Croatia, Ukraine, Poland

    Languages: Czech, Croatian, Ukrainian

    Also written Edvar, Эдвард, Едвар, Edvárd, Èdvard

  • Portuguese given name8.8K records spelled Edvard4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Edvárd

  • Swedish given name2.1K records spelled Edvard2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, Finland

    Also written Ėdvard

  • French given name1.7K records spelled Edvard4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Martinique, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ėdvard, Edvárd

  • Hindi given name950 records spelled Edvard3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Norway, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Edvárd

  • a separate given name637 records spelled Edvard2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Edvárd

36 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.

Over time●

0501001501960198020002020138 · 2013

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Edvard in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
194522
194615
194726
194824
194917
195022
195110
195213
195317
195415
195514
195614
195721
195813
195912
19609
196112
196310
19645
196510
19667
196712
196814
196912
197013
197110
197214
197314
197415
197515
197612
19779
197812
19798
198011
198111
198221
198310
198412
19856
198610
198714
198814
19898
199019
199123
199230
199357
199474
199562
199650
199766
199855
199974
200058
200159
200252
200377
200475
200565
200674
200778
200879
200989
201083
2011117
2012118
2013138
2014107
201597
2016120
2017116
2018127
2019106
202095
2021107
2022106
202391
202492
2025100

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 80 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Edward III, b. 1312Edward Burnett Tylor, b. 1832Edvard Beneš, b. 1884Edward Calvin Kendall, b. 1886Edward Victor Appleton, b. 1892John Bowlby, b. 1907Edward Heath, b. 1916Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, b. 1960Edward Norton, b. 1969Edward Snowden, b. 1983
  • Edward IIIb. 1312GBnot in their usual nameKing of England from 1327 to 1377
  • Edward Burnett Tylorb. 1832GBnot in their usual nameEnglish anthropologist (1832–1917)
  • Edvard Benešb. 1884CZCzechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
  • Edward Calvin Kendallb. 1886USnot in their usual nameAmerican chemist (1886-1972)
  • Edward Victor Appletonb. 1892GBnot in their usual nameEnglish physicist (1892–1965)
  • John Bowlbyb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameBritish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1907–1990)
  • Edward Heathb. 1916GBnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 (1916–2005)
  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorb. 1960GBnot in their usual namethird child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)
  • Edward Nortonb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
  • Edward Snowdenb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)

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 62 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Edvard
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23K#205
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13K#349
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7.8K#472
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.6K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20253.5K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.9K#121
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.9K#262
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.3K—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1K#477
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—506#535
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—506#524
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—441#15,500

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 371 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edvard?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Edvard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Edvard have the most bearers?
Edvard is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled edward.
How common is Edvard compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Edvard is the 42nd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Edvard a male or female name?
Edvard 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 Edvard mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., schwedische und nor­ wegische Form von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Edvard” — the 42nd most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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