Eddie
Feminine · “wealth”
Eddie is given to both — 15,760 girls and 211,867 boys since 1880. See Eddie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Eddie for a daughter is Edith or Edna shortened, and the Old English behind them is ead — wealth and good fortune, the most productive element in Anglo-Saxon naming.
How old is the name Eddie?
Eddie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Eddie alive today was born around 1931, making them about 94 years old. About 5,200 people named Eddie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eddie most popular?
Eddie peaked in 1922, reaching #333 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 11,599 places below that high. See the whole 1922 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ead to Eddie
The story of Eddie
Edith was an Anglo-Saxon royal name that survived the conquest, and Edna and Edwina joined it in the nineteenth century. English speech clipped all of them to Eddie, and American families registered the clipping for daughters in the same movement that produced Billie, Jackie and Frankie. Feminine Eddie peaked around 1928.
Meaning
wealth, fortune
Through Edith, from the Old English ead, 'wealth' or 'fortune', and gyth, 'war'. The ead element is the same one behind Edward, Edwin, Edgar and Edmund. It is ordinary Old English and the meaning is undisputed.
How the name formed
- ead
- Edith
- Eddie
Related forms: Eddy · Edie · Edith
Pronouncing Eddie
ED-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said identically whichever sex carries it.
Nicknames for Eddie
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1925375 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #333reached in 1922
- Change vs 2022
- −22.2%7 in 2025, from 9
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.
Eddie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eddy in English — spelling variant
- Edie in English — related form
- Edith in English — related form
Eddies among us
people named Eddie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Eddie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eddie
- #11932
- Eddie on the 2025 chart
- #862
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eddie went to 7 girls in 2025, but Edie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 98, which makes it the 862nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,070 places above the chart.
- Edie91
- Eddie7
About 1 girl in 16,401 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Eddie 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 Leone test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eddie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Leone climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Leone's path sketches the road Eddie is walking now.
Eddie 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
Eddie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eddie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The ead element is among the best documented in Anglo-Saxon naming.
- Edith is available as a full formal version with real currency now.
- It belongs to a documented American practice of unisex short forms.
- It reads as masculine to most English speakers.
- Edie is the commoner feminine spelling of the sound.
- It is strongly period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eddies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,200 people named Eddie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eddie?
- Eddie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Edie is the more common one — 91 births in 2025 against 7 for Eddie.
- How popular is the name Eddie in 2025?
- Eddie ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eddie?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Eddie — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eddie with classmates?
- Eddie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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