Edd
Edd was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 5,451 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,561, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
169 babies in 1919, the peak
Edd peaked in 1919, when 169 babies were given it (163 boys, #465 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #12,561 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,463 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,538 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 9 | #4,256 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,331 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,115 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,054 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,188 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,055 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,624 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,997 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,679 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,697 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,183 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,190 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,643 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,395 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,429 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,602 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,438 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,310 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,090 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 49 | #998 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 56 | #924 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 58 | #918 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 73 | #778 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 69 | #737 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 62 | #798 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 49 | #963 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 49 | #949 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 49 | #909 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 66 | #760 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 65 | #748 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 59 | #808 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 59 | #804 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 51 | #853 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 84 | #649 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 87 | #643 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 72 | #713 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 76 | #711 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 80 | #667 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 105 | #586 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 78 | #702 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 79 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 95 | #649 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 100 | #628 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 116 | #579 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 92 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 111 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 126 | #567 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 117 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 120 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 163 | #465 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 115 | #565 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 108 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1916 | 106 | #556 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 101 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 92 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 64 | #540 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 63 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 43 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1910 | 33 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1909 | 39 | #389 | 0.24 |
| 1908 | 47 | #327 | 0.30 |
| 1907 | 41 | #334 | 0.28 |
| 1906 | 49 | #289 | 0.37 |
| 1905 | 43 | #307 | 0.33 |
| 1904 | 37 | #330 | 0.29 |
| 1903 | 44 | #282 | 0.37 |
| 1902 | 48 | #272 | 0.39 |
| 1901 | 37 | #285 | 0.35 |
| 1900 | 61 | #263 | 0.41 |
| 1899 | 41 | #270 | 0.39 |
| 1898 | 46 | #263 | 0.37 |
| 1897 | 47 | #255 | 0.42 |
| 1896 | 39 | #297 | 0.33 |
| 1895 | 41 | #277 | 0.35 |
| 1894 | 60 | #219 | 0.52 |
| 1893 | 56 | #228 | 0.50 |
| 1892 | 65 | #218 | 0.53 |
| 1891 | 53 | #220 | 0.52 |
| 1890 | 62 | #210 | 0.56 |
| 1889 | 52 | #223 | 0.47 |
| 1888 | 68 | #215 | 0.56 |
| 1887 | 60 | #199 | 0.59 |
| 1886 | 62 | #215 | 0.56 |
| 1885 | 51 | #231 | 0.47 |
| 1884 | 50 | #242 | 0.44 |
| 1883 | 43 | #249 | 0.41 |
| 1882 | 63 | #203 | 0.55 |
| 1881 | 40 | #248 | 0.40 |
| 1880 | 52 | #226 | 0.47 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Edd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edd has been given almost only to boys: 13 girls in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Edd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edd, and how old are they?
An estimated 876 Americans named Edd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,283 people named Edd (9 women and girls, 1,274 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Edd rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Edd born?
The states with the most babies named Edd are Tennessee, Texas and Alabama, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 369 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Texas | 365 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 308 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 283 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Kentucky | 280 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Mississippi | 259 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| North Carolina | 252 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 82 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 81 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 70 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Edd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edd is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 3.7 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 Edd 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 33,242 babies since 1880, Edd is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 none of their 83 babies recorded by SSA was a Edd (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Edd
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 Edd and names like it
- Compare Edd and EdBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEdd peaked in 1919.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edd since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Edd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Edd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.