Eddy
Feminine · “wealth”
Eddy is given to boys far more often — 14,039 boys against 392 girls since 1880. See Eddy as a boy name
Eddy entered the US charts in 1926, peaked at #2597 in 1946, ranks #11932 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Eddy?
Eddy first appears in US birth records in 1926 — 99 years ago. The typical Eddy alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 300 people named Eddy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eddy most popular?
Eddy peaked in 1946, reaching #2597 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,335 places below that high. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ead weard to Eddy
The story of Eddy
Edward the Confessor made the name survive the conquest — the Normans kept it when they discarded almost every other English royal name. Eddy and Eddie were the ordinary clippings, and American families registered both outright from the nineteenth century. Eddy also appears through French and Spanish use, and it is in current use.
Meaning
wealth, fortune
Through Edward, from the Old English ead, 'wealth' or 'fortune', and weard, 'guardian'. The ead element opens Edward, Edwin, Edgar, Edmund and Edith. The English noun eddy, a swirl of water, is a separate Norse word and is not the source.
How the name formed
- ead weard
- Edward
- Eddy
Related forms: Eddie · Eddy · Eddy
Pronouncing Eddy
ED-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Eddy and Eddie are said identically.
Nicknames for Eddy
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
- 1926
- Most girls named
- 194614 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2597reached in 1946
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
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.
Eddy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eddie in English — spelling variant
- Eddy in French — same name
- Eddy in Spanish — same name
Eddys among us
people named Eddy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Eddy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eddy
- #11932
- Eddy on the 2025 chart
- #947
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eddy went to 7 girls in 2025, but Edy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 13, which makes it the 947th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,985 places above the chart.
- Eddy7
- Edy6
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Eddy 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 Katherleen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eddy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Katherleen climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Katherleen's path sketches the road Eddy is walking now.
Eddy 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
Eddy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eddy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
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Feminine · #11932 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Eddys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Eddy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eddy?
- Eddy is the most-used spelling in US records — 7 of the 13 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Edy.
- How popular is the name Eddy in 2025?
- Eddy ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eddy?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Eddy — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eddy with classmates?
- Eddy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Eddy
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