Edison
Edison was given to 276 boys in 2025, #870 among boys’ names; 12,738 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,000 Americans named Edison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edison mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Edison is “a male given name from English”
Borrowed from English Edison.
/ˈʔedison/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edison?
#870 among boys’ names, 2025
Edison fell from #635 in 2015 to #870 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.22 to 0.16 per 1,000.
554 babies in 2018, the peak
Edison peaked in 2018, when 554 babies were given it (522 boys, #538 among boys’ names). The 276 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 276 | #870 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 302 | #827 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 297 | #823 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 347 | #742 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 452 | #616 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 458 | #599 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 466 | #594 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 522 | #538 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 495 | #555 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 481 | #576 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (133)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 420 | #635 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 361 | #693 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 366 | #661 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 304 | #752 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 292 | #769 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 229 | #894 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 194 | #1,012 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 202 | #972 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 195 | #954 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 171 | #1,002 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 159 | #1,030 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 145 | #1,068 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,155 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,253 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 78 | #1,540 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 76 | #1,492 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,396 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,552 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 62 | #1,587 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,781 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,689 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,722 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 58 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 47 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 37 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,844 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 35 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 37 | #1,404 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 40 | #1,318 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,292 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,078 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,242 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,063 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,285 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,049 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,119 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 68 | #931 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,117 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,187 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 61 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,020 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 54 | #978 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 56 | #954 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,026 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 56 | #920 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,014 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 50 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,021 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 47 | #944 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,007 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 49 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 48 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 53 | #873 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 43 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 43 | #958 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 43 | #969 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,003 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 40 | #995 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 53 | #861 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 47 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 43 | #966 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 57 | #845 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 77 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 59 | #858 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 66 | #797 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 58 | #876 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 79 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 63 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 58 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 82 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 87 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 104 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 86 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 88 | #681 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 85 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 107 | #590 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 118 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 84 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 81 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 49 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 47 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 43 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 18 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 17 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 16 | #691 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 10 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 13 | #750 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 10 | #808 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 10 | #801 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 14 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 14 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 7 | #881 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 7 | #877 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 12 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 7 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 12 | #582 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 8 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 6 | #872 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Edison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,738 Americans recorded as Edison, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 276 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Edison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edison, and how old are they?
10,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 12,738 Americans ever recorded as Edison. The median Edison alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 11,547 people named Edison (192 women and girls, 11,355 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,238 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 163 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 649 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 485 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 739 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Edison born?
The states with the most babies named Edison are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #802 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,076 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 17 | #343 | 1.4× |
| New York | 14 | #930 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 14 | #970 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 12 | #651 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #792 | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #450 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 10 | #569 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 9 | #937 | 0.5× |
Where Edison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edison is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Edison with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 18,112 babies since 1880, Edison is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 276 of their 400 babies (69%), again the 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 Edison
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 Edison and names like it
- Compare Edison and EdsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEdison peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edison since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Edison: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Edison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Edison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.