Edan
Edan is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,660 among girls’ names and #3,261 among boys’, #6,332 among all names counting both); 1,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Edan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edan?
#3,261 among boys’ names, 2025
Edan fell from #2,463 in 2015 to #3,261 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 21.1 per million.
78 babies in 2009, the peak
Edan peaked in 2009, when 78 babies were given it (68 boys, #2,037 among boys’ names). The 42 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,660 | 36 | #3,261 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 39 | #3,120 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,827 | 53 | #2,518 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,050 | 37 | #3,230 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 35 | #3,316 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 44 | #2,772 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 44 | #2,819 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 39 | #3,006 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 51 | #2,499 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,296 | 41 | #2,899 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,148 | 51 | #2,463 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,242 | 50 | #2,494 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,314 | 66 | #2,048 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,533 | 56 | #2,302 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,488 | 49 | #2,515 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,879 | 51 | #2,440 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,899 | 68 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,867 | 57 | #2,300 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,067 | 56 | #2,313 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,812 | 58 | #2,209 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,395 | 57 | #2,136 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,924 | 36 | #2,855 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,967 | 40 | #2,555 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,588 | 25 | #3,477 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,311 | 30 | #3,004 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,019 | 28 | #3,097 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,093 | 25 | #3,200 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 18 | #3,888 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,392 | 25 | #3,008 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 20 | #3,441 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 12 | #4,875 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 21 | #3,248 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 17 | #3,701 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,733 | 15 | #3,971 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 20 | #3,143 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 20 | #3,081 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,786 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,333 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,664 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,492 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,307 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,295 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,675 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,183 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,926 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,091 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,260 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,286 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,856 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,987 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,445 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,203 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,727 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,554 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,603 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,825 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Edan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,713 Americans recorded as Edan, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Edan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edan, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,713 Americans ever recorded as Edan. The median Edan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,535 people named Edan (284 women and girls, 1,251 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,440 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 195 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 791 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 630 |
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 Edan born?
The states with the most babies named Edan are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,870 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,673 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,833 | 0.8× |
Where Edan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edan is most over-represented in California: since 1968 it was given 1.3 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 Edan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,484 babies since 1880, Edan is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 1,119 babies (3.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Edan
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 Edan and names like it
- Compare Edan and EidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEdan peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Edan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Edan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.