Eamon
Masculine · “protector of wealth”
Éamon is the Irish of Edmund — wealth-protector — and it belonged to the man who led Ireland for most of the twentieth century, born in New York to an Irish mother.
How old is the name Eamon?
Eamon first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Eamon alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 4,600 people named Eamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eamon most popular?
Eamon peaked in 2017, reaching #1078 nationally. Today it ranks #1644, 566 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
Eamon appears on this list:
Works in Irish families too:
Where it comes from
From ead mund to Eamon
The story of Eamon
Edmund the Martyr was a ninth-century king of East Anglia killed by Danes, and his name reached Ireland through English settlement, becoming Éamonn. Éamon de Valera fought in 1916, escaped execution, and led Ireland as taoiseach and president across five decades. Irish emigration brought the name to America, where it is in current use.
Meaning
protector of wealth
Through Edmund, from the Old English ead, 'wealth' or 'fortune', and mund, 'protection' or 'hand'. Irish took it as Éamonn. Both elements are ordinary Old English and the compound is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- ead mund
- Edmund
- Éamonn
- Eamon
Related forms: Éamonn · Edmund · Edmundo
Pronouncing Eamon
AY-mun
Two syllables, stress on the first. The Irish fada marks the long first vowel and is routinely dropped in American records.
Nicknames for Eamon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most boys named
- 2016182 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1078reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%102 in 2025, from 119
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eamon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Éamonn in Irish — same name
- Edmund in English — related form
- Edmundo in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Massachusetts.
Eamons among us
people named Eamon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 16,746 born in 2025 was named Eamon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eamon
- #1644
- Eamon on the 2025 chart
- #790
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eamon went to 102 boys in 2025, but Eamonn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 138, which makes it the 790th most-given boys’ name of the year — 854 places above the chart.
- Eamon102
- Eamonn36
About 1 boy in 12,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,746 for Eamon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Breon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eamon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Breon climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Breon's path sketches the road Eamon is walking now.
Eamon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eamon is headed
Eamon should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eamon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eamon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The wealth-protector meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- A martyred king and a founding Irish statesman both stand behind it.
- Two clean syllables with no real pronunciation risk.
- The fada is dropped in American records, which loses the Irish spelling.
- Éamonn with two n's is the standard Irish form.
- English speakers may read the ea as EE rather than AY.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eamons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,600 people named Eamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eamon?
- Eamon is the most-used spelling in US records — 102 of the 138 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Eamonn.
- How popular is the name Eamon in 2025?
- Eamon ranks #1644 among US boy names in 2025, with 102 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eamon?
- About 1 in every 16,746 US boys born in 2025 was named Eamon — 102 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eamon with classmates?
- Eamon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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