Edelia
Edelia was last recorded in 1987, when 6 babies were given it; 50 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,213, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1936, the peak
Edelia peaked in 1936, when 7 girls were given it, #3,465 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #10,213 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,698 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,145 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,067 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,077 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,631 | 2.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,504 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,465 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,029 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 32 Americans named Edelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 454 people named Edelia (452 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12.3 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 856 babies since 1880, Edelia is the fourth most given (5.8% of them).
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.
More about Edelia and names like it
- Compare Edelia and EudeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sEdelia peaked in 1936.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1936The year the most babies were named Edelia.
- Names starting with EMost given first.