Edison — #826 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Edison

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,244 babies named Edison between 1891 and 2024, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Edison currently holds the #826 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 522 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Edison performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,936 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Edison shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Edison in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Edison 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 12,244 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.