Edlin
Edlin was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 303 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edlin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,351, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1989, the peak
Edlin peaked in 1989, when 53 girls were given it, #2,251 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,351 | 2.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,087 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,967 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,921 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,897 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,932 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,727 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,237 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,543 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,251 | 28.7 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 37 | #2,811 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,195 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,474 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,027 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,965 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 303 Americans recorded as Edlin, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Edlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edlin, and how old are they?
An estimated 295 Americans named Edlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 35 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Edlin (404 women and girls, 91 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 296 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Where are babies named Edlin born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 152 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Edlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edlin is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 3.6 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 girls’ 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 Edlin 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 1,494 babies since 1880, Edlin is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 none of their 59 babies recorded by SSA was a Edlin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Edlin
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 Edlin and names like it
- Compare Edlin and EdelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEdlin peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Edlin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Edlin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.