Eda
Eda was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,599 among girls’ names; 4,208 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Eda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 18 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eda is “a female given name from Old English.” Its etymology gives the sense “riches” (ead).
From Old English ead (“riches”), also short for compound given names beginning thus, particularly Edith.
/iː.də/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eda?
#5,599 among girls’ names, 2025
Eda rose from #5,882 in 2015 to #5,599 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 13.7 per million.
100 babies in 1916, the peak
Eda peaked in 1916, when 100 girls were given it, #685 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,599 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,003 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,797 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,509 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,446 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,917 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,849 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,499 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,416 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,485 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (144)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,882 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,082 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,699 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,319 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,990 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,993 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,997 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,158 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,375 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,914 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,430 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,613 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,429 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,279 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,718 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,411 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,034 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,650 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,751 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,479 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,911 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,935 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,153 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,922 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,345 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,940 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,482 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,671 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,031 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,696 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,874 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,220 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,872 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,524 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,603 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,014 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 55 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 58 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 57 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 74 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 68 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 73 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 80 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 90 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 80 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 72 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 92 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 98 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 88 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 100 | #685 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 71 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 56 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 67 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 49 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 33 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 31 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 20 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 35 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 35 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 28 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 29 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 30 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 27 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 32 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 24 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 36 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 29 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 34 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 33 | #512 | 0.14 |
| 1896 | 47 | #420 | 0.20 |
| 1895 | 43 | #433 | 0.18 |
| 1894 | 36 | #464 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 32 | #476 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 46 | #391 | 0.22 |
| 1891 | 41 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 39 | #406 | 0.20 |
| 1889 | 31 | #432 | 0.17 |
| 1888 | 40 | #380 | 0.22 |
| 1887 | 25 | #449 | 0.17 |
| 1886 | 37 | #352 | 0.26 |
| 1885 | 42 | #313 | 0.32 |
| 1884 | 35 | #333 | 0.27 |
| 1883 | 19 | #439 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 31 | #319 | 0.29 |
| 1881 | 23 | #342 | 0.25 |
| 1880 | 22 | #342 | 0.24 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 144 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eda, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 32% of the 4,208 Americans ever recorded as Eda. The median Eda alive today is 51 years old; half are between 18 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,625 people named Eda (2,606 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 161 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 378 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 153 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 156 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 258 |
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 Eda born?
The states with the most babies named Eda are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 284 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 188 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Rhode Island | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Eda 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,049 babies since 1880, Eda is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 122 babies (18%), again the second 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 Eda
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 Eda and names like it
- Compare Eda and EdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEda peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eda since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Eda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Eda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Eda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.