Eamonn
Masculine · “protector of wealth”
Eamonn is the Irish form of Edmund, an Old English name that Ireland took in and kept long after England had largely put it down. The doubled n is the Irish spelling; a single n is the other one.
How old is the name Eamonn?
Eamonn first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Eamonn alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,300 people named Eamonn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eamonn most popular?
Eamonn peaked in 1983, reaching #1651 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 1,589 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Eadmund to Eamonn
The story of Eamonn
Eadmund was an Anglo-Saxon royal name, carried by a king of East Anglia killed by Danish raiders in the ninth century and venerated as a martyr. His cult reached Ireland, and Irish speakers made Éamonn of the name — one of relatively few English names that Irish took in wholeheartedly. It has been a standard Irish men's name for centuries and reached American records with Irish emigration, in the spellings Eamon, Eamonn and Eammon.
Meaning
protector of wealth
From Old English ead, wealth or fortune, and mund, protection; the same first element opens Edward, Edric and Edith.
How the name formed
- Eadmund
- Edmund
- Éamonn
Related forms: Edmund · Éamon · Edmundo · Edmond
Pronouncing Eamonn
AY-mun
Two syllables, first stressed. The accent in Éamonn marks the long first vowel and is often dropped in American use.
Nicknames for Eamonn
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
- 1958
- Most boys named
- 200746 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1651reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- +157.1%36 in 2025, from 14
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.
Eamonn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Edmund in English — same name
- Éamon in Irish — spelling variant
- Edmundo in Spanish — same name
- Edmond in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Massachusetts.
Eamonns among us
people named Eamonn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Eamonn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eamonn
- #3240
- Eamonn on the 2025 chart
- #790
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eamonn went to 36 boys in 2025, but Eamon 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 — 2,450 places above the chart.
- Eamon102
- Eamonn36
About 1 boy in 12,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 for Eamonn 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 Burlin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eamonn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Burlin climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Burlin's path sketches the road Eamonn is walking now.
Eamonn 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 Eamonn is headed
Eamonn is easing off slowly — about 28% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Eamonn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eamonn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Old English meaning and a documented record reaching back over a thousand years.
- Eddie and Ned are both established short forms with their own histories.
- It is instantly recognizable as Irish without being unpronounceable.
- Eamon with one n is equally standard, so the spelling will be asked for.
- American readers see the ea and try EE-mon rather than AY-mun.
- The accent will be dropped by nearly every American system.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eamonns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Eamonn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eamonn?
- Eamonn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Eamon is the more common one — 102 births in 2025 against 36 for Eamonn.
- How popular is the name Eamonn in 2025?
- Eamonn ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eamonn?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Eamonn — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eamonn with classmates?
- Eamonn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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