Edda
Edda was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,314 among girls’ names; 735 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edda mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Edda is “a female given name, shortened from Germanic compound names beginning with Ed- or Edel-”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edda?
#10,314 among girls’ names, 2025
Edda fell from #8,590 in 2015 to #10,314 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
22 babies in 1930, the peak
Edda peaked in 1930, when 22 girls were given it, #1,717 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,314 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,227 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,742 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,485 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,134 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,892 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,934 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,754 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,929 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,297 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,590 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,237 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,262 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,896 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,880 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,085 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,307 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,917 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,904 | 4.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,374 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,456 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,857 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,602 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,131 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,061 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,851 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,437 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,212 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,634 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,057 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,449 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,254 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,886 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,793 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,760 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,389 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,085 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,967 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,968 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,891 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,151 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,580 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,346 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,626 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,791 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,084 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,781 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,814 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,909 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,244 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,329 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,610 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,229 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,625 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,541 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,373 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,228 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,791 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,195 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,874 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,297 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,717 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,204 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,531 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,458 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,980 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,768 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,085 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,746 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,624 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,080 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,313 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,778 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,644 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,907 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,307 | 13.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,965 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,861 | 18.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,470 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edda, and how old are they?
An estimated 433 Americans named Edda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 11 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,593 people named Edda (1,585 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,349 babies since 1880, Edda is the third most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 122 babies (7.4%), again the third 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 Edda
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 Edda and names like it
- Compare Edda and EdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sEdda peaked in 1930.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edda since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Edda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Edda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Edda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.