Eddison
Masculine · “son of Edith”
Eddison is given to both — 531 boys and 36 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Eddison is a spelling of Edison, an English surname meaning son of Edith — a rare case of a patronymic built on a woman's name.
How old is the name Eddison?
Eddison first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Eddison is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Eddison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eddison most popular?
Eddison peaked in 2019, reaching #3347 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 1,192 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Edith to Eddison
The story of Eddison
Most English patronymic surnames are built on men's names, so Edison is an exception worth noticing — the mother's name was used, which usually meant she was the more significant parent locally or the father was unknown. Thomas Edison made the surname internationally famous. Its use as a given name is recent, and Eddison with two d's is a modern respelling.
Meaningscholars disagree
son of Edith
Generally read as a patronymic on Edith, from Old English ead, wealth, and gyth, war; a competing reading takes it from Adam. That an English surname should be built on a mother's name is genuinely unusual.
How the name formed
- Edith
- Edison
- Eddison
Related forms: Edison · Edith
Pronouncing Eddison
ED-ih-sun
Three syllables, first stressed. Eddison and Edison are said identically.
Nicknames for Eddison
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
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 201934 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3347reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +4.8%22 in 2025, from 21
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.
Eddison in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Edison in English — spelling variant
- Edith in English — related form
Eddisons among us
people named Eddison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Eddison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eddison
- #4539
- Eddison on the 2025 chart
- #644
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eddison went to 22 boys in 2025, but Edison is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 298, which makes it the 644th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,895 places above the chart.
- Edison276
- Eddison22
About 1 boy in 5,732 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 77,640 for Eddison 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 Gaberial test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eddison's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gaberial climbed just as high around 2002, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gaberial's path sketches the road Eddison is walking now.
Eddison 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
Eddison beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eddison in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuinely unusual patronymic built on a woman's name.
- Ed and Eddie are both complete short forms with enormous records.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Edison is the standard spelling and will be written for him.
- The inventor is the strongest association and it is a large one.
- Eight letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Masculine · #4539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Eddisons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Eddison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eddison?
- Eddison is one of 2 recorded spellings. Edison is the more common one — 276 births in 2025 against 22 for Eddison.
- How popular is the name Eddison in 2025?
- Eddison ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eddison?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Eddison — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eddison with classmates?
- Eddison will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Eddison
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