Eamon
Eamon was given to 102 boys in 2025, #1,646 among boys’ names; 4,743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,580 Americans named Eamon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eamon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eamon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eamon is “a male given name from Irish Éamonn, Éamann [in turn from Old English Ēadmund (“prosperity protector”)], variant of Edmund; variant forms Eamonn, Eamann, Eaman.” Its etymology gives the sense “Edmund” (Éamann).
Borrowed from Irish Éamann (“Edmund”). Doublet of Edmund.
/ˈeɪ̯.mən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eamon?
#1,646 among boys’ names, 2025
Eamon fell from #1,274 in 2015 to #1,646 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 73.6 to 59.7 per million.
182 babies in 2016, the peak
Eamon peaked in 2016, when 182 boys were given it, #1,082 among boys’ names. The 102 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,646 | 59.7 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,505 | 69.1 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,672 | 59.6 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,682 | 58.4 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,425 | 73.2 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,427 | 70.1 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,218 | 86.9 |
| 2018 | 157 | #1,200 | 86.4 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,078 | 98.3 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,082 | 95.9 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,274 | 73.6 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,300 | 70.8 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,436 | 60.8 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,304 | 69.6 |
| 2011 | 155 | #1,157 | 81.6 |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,360 | 65.1 |
| 2009 | 161 | #1,139 | 81.2 |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,140 | 78.4 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,482 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,316 | 60.8 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,209 | 65.6 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,285 | 58.4 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,297 | 54.7 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,413 | 47.4 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,287 | 52.5 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,517 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,329 | 46.9 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,406 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,253 | 48.8 |
| 1996 | 66 | #1,520 | 34.8 |
| 1995 | 58 | #1,586 | 30.5 |
| 1994 | 52 | #1,714 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,853 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,857 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 41 | #1,894 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,842 | 20.4 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,686 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,789 | 19.9 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,803 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,544 | 23.4 |
| 1985 | 48 | #1,417 | 26.0 |
| 1984 | 39 | #1,560 | 21.6 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,568 | 21.2 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,547 | 22.0 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,462 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,706 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,799 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,624 | 20.7 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,796 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,892 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,471 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,642 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,150 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,941 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,446 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,655 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,579 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,228 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,054 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,367 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,517 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,624 | 12.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,577 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,558 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,758 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,431 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,699 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,085 | 3.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,960 | 2.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,590 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,664 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,854 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,946 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,324 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eamon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eamon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eamon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eamon, and how old are they?
4,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,743 Americans ever recorded as Eamon. The median Eamon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,122 people named Eamon (21 women and girls, 4,101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,981 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 66 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 274 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 684 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eamon born?
The states with the most babies named Eamon are New York, California and Massachusetts, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #809 | 2.1× |
| California | 8 | #1,869 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #642 | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,167 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 6 | #927 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,672 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,912 | 0.2× |
Where Eamon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eamon is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1919 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eamon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,479 babies since 1880, Eamon is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 195 babies (52%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eamon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eamon and names like it
- Compare Eamon and EamonnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEamon peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eamon since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Eamon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Eamon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eamon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.