Girls' name · since 2015
Edelweiss
Since 2015, U.S. Social Security records show 86 babies named Edelweiss, peaking in 2021. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #28,806 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,918 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 86
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
86 babies have been named Edelweiss since 2015, making it today's #12918 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Edelweiss has been recorded 86 times among girls since 2015, currently ranked #12918 nationally and more common than 25% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #28,806 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,918 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 86 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Edelweiss ranks #28,806 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,918 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 86 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,806 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,918 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 86
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Edelweiss's 86 recorded births place it above 60.04% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Edelweiss compares
86 22nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Edelweiss's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Edelweiss | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 86 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Edelweiss's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Edelweiss's full recorded timeline at 2020, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2022, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Edelweiss popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Edelweiss by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (49 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Edelweiss's strongest decade.
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Edelweiss births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
37 births
- 2020s
2020s
49 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 49 births (57% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Edelweiss: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Edelweiss draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.