Edina — girls' name
507 babies named Edina in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Edina was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Edina in 1975 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Edina
The Social Security Administration has registered 507 babies named Edina between 1949 and 2022, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Edina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Edina performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Edina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Edina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Edina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 507 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Edina at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Edina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1949
- Peak year (1975)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 74 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
507 total births across 74 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1975 with 19 births in a single year.
Edina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 133 births that decade — 26% of Edina's all-time total
Edina decade highlights
- Peak decade 133 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Edina's strongest decade
133 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Edina by state
Where Edina concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 23 | 4.5% |
23 of 507 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.