Edy
Edy is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,662 among girls’ names and #4,903 among boys’, #8,693 among all names counting both); 887 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Edy?
#4,903 among boys’ names, 2025
Edy fell from #4,106 in 2015 to #4,903 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 11.7 per million.
40 babies in 2006, the peak
Edy peaked in 2006, when 40 babies were given it (28 boys, #3,624 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,662 | 20 | #4,903 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 20 | #4,927 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 21 | #4,783 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 20 | #4,895 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 14 | #6,103 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,517 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 34 | #3,372 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,598 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,544 | 13 | #6,415 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 14 | #6,123 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 25 | #4,106 | |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,722 | 23 | #4,294 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 20 | #4,668 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,613 | 14 | #6,081 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,311 | 22 | #4,400 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,634 | 21 | #4,561 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,041 | 23 | #4,324 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,312 | 23 | #4,298 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,658 | 18 | #5,062 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,464 | 28 | #3,624 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,243 | 27 | #3,553 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,870 | 18 | #4,645 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,386 | 15 | #5,102 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 23 | #3,699 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #4,952 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 18 | #4,252 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,155 | 17 | #4,199 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,461 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,396 | 14 | #4,511 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 11 | #5,286 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,611 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 16 | #3,967 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,220 | 13 | #4,521 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,640 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,207 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 13 | #4,236 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 10 | #4,917 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,654 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,281 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,497 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,839 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,680 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,697 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,192 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,744 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,857 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,377 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,797 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,455 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,233 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,999 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,136 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,889 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,330 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,145 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Edy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 887 Americans recorded as Edy, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Edy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edy, and how old are they?
An estimated 865 Americans named Edy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,334 people named Edy (777 women and girls, 2,557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 758 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 15,923 babies since 1880, Edy is the second most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 147 babies (18%), again the second 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 Edy
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 Edy and names like it
- Compare Edy and EddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEdy peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edy since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Edy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Edy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.