Edy

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Edy is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. see Eddy . 2 English: see Eady .

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, אדוורד in PL Poland and Edvard in FI Finland.

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●

Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. see Eddy . 2 English: see Eady .

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nordic Names

Where in the world●

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

Where Edy 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●

  • Spanish78K31%
  • Indonesian68K27%
  • Portuguese59K24%
  • English22K9%
  • French3.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish78,26931%
Indonesian68,36127%
Portuguese58,97924%
English22,3219%
French3,2861%

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◐

Edy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6.8K records spelled Edy5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Edÿ, Édy, Êdy

  • Lao given name553 records spelled Edy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Malaysia, United States, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Edÿ

63 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●

05010015019401960198020002020124 · 1974

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Edy in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1922–2024
Yearrecords
19221
19311
19331
19381
19411
19422
19431
19444
19453
19463
19473
19483
19495
19501
19524
19533
19544
19556
19565
19577
195810
19595
196016
196124
196223
196319
196425
196517
196657
196742
196843
196948
197098
1971111
1972110
197380
1974124
197561
197666
197770
197870
197953
198063
198157
198256
198347
198448
198552
198632
198740
198842
198929
199030
199129
199233
199333
199436
199548
199629
199737
199839
199940
200041
200128
200238
200339
200432
200532
200623
200749
200845
200933
201046
201130
201235
201331
201418
201530
201618
201717
201819
20197
202011
202112
20229
202319
202411

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 87 years between 1922–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Edy Reinalter, b. 1920Sixten Jernberg, b. 1929Edy Vessel, b. 1940Edy Hubacher, b. 1940Edy Schütz, b. 1941Edy Williams, b. 1942Edy Mertens, b. 1954Edy Cohen, b. 1972Edy Vasquez, b. 1983Snot, b. 1997

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 55 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Edy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.9K#4,708
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#5,215
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.4K#434
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—2K#811
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#3,864
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#3,864
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020777#5,215
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2014210#2,491
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—159#1,631
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000138#116,835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010126#133,863

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 510 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edy?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Edy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Edy have the most bearers?
Edy is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled edward.
How common is Edy compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Edy is the 42nd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Edy a male or female name?
Edy 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 Edy mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. see Eddy . 2 English: see Eady .
Query this name via API
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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, “Edy” — the 42nd most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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