Eden
Masculine · Hebrew roots · “Delight”
Eden is given to both — 10,966 boys and 52,434 girls since 1880. See Eden as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Eden is the name of the garden in the opening chapters of Genesis, and the Hebrew word behind it means delight — that is a lot of history for four letters and two syllables. It arrives in English already familiar in spelling, so almost nobody has to ask how to write it, and it has traveled into French, Spanish and Italian with barely a change. In Israel it is given freely to boys and girls alike.
How old is the name Eden?
Eden first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Eden is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 11,000 people named Eden are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eden most popular?
Eden peaked in 2022, reaching #408 nationally. Today it ranks #544, 136 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Eden appears on this list:
Where it comes from
From ʿEden (Hebrew) to Eden
The story of Eden
The name reaches English through the Hebrew Bible: ʿEden, the garden described in Genesis, carried into Greek by the translators of the Septuagint and then into Latin and English Bibles. For centuries in the English-speaking world it stayed a place and a byword for paradise rather than a name for a child, while surviving quite separately as an English surname and as the name of a river in Cumbria. Its life as a given name is largely a modern story: it became established in Israel as a unisex name, and English-speaking parents began using it in earnest only in recent generations. It now appears on birth records in the United States, England and Wales, and Scotland.
Meaning
Delight, pleasure
The Hebrew word ʿeden means delight or luxury, and that is the accepted sense of the given name. Scholars still argue over the garden's own name — whether it comes from that Hebrew root or from an older Mesopotamian word edinu, meaning plain or open country — but the naming tradition follows the Hebrew. Separately, Eden also exists as an English surname and place name (the River Eden in Cumbria), which is a different road to the same spelling.
How the name formed
- ʿEdenHebrew
- Ἐδέμ / EdemGreek Septuagint
- EdenLatin Vulgate
- EdenEnglish
Related forms: עֵדֶן · Éden · Edén · Eden · Edem · Эдем
Pronouncing Eden
EE-den
Two syllables, stress on the first, and the second is a light -den rather than -dan. In Modern Hebrew it sounds closer to EH-den. The main hazard in the US is being heard as Aiden or Aden over the phone.
Nicknames for Eden
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
- 1917
- Most boys named
- 2022787 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #408reached in 2022
- Change vs 2023
- −22.3%551 in 2025, from 709
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.
Eden in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עֵדֶן in Hebrew — transliteration
- Éden in French — spelling variant
- Edén in Spanish — spelling variant
- Eden in Italian — same name
- Edem in Greek — related form
- Эдем in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Edens among us
people named Eden are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 3,100 born in 2025 was named Eden
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jamison test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eden's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jamison climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jamison's path sketches the road Eden is walking now.
Eden 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 Eden is headed
Eden 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.
Eden beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eden in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A spelling nearly everyone already knows from the Bible, so it rarely has to be spelled out or corrected in writing.
- Short and complete on its own — it needs no nickname, though Edie and Eddie are available if one is wanted.
- Moves between English, French, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew with at most an accent mark changing.
- Works for a boy or a girl without alteration, as it does in Israel.
- Recorded in Britain as well as the United States, so it is not a name that stops at one border.
- The Garden of Eden is the first thing most English speakers hear. That association is warm rather than heavy, but it is unavoidable, and a small number of people will read it as an explicitly religious choice.
- It sits close to the Aiden–Aidan–Aden cluster in sound, so expect occasional mishearing and the wrong spelling on a coffee cup or a class list.
- Most Edens in the US are girls, with a steady minority of boys. A boy named Eden will meet the odd assumption on paper, though the name itself is genuinely used both ways.
- It is on a clear upward path, so a child named Eden now is likelier to meet another one later in school than in kindergarten.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Eden to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Eden? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Eden
Masculine · Hebrew roots · #544 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Edens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,000 people named Eden are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eden in 2025?
- Eden ranks #544 among US boy names in 2025, with 551 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eden?
- About 1 in every 3,100 US boys born in 2025 was named Eden — 551 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eden with classmates?
- Eden will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Eden
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Fletcher#545 · Erik#545 · Augustine#545 · Cal#542 · Akari#542 · Hamza#541 · Ozzy#548 · Devin#548
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Eden? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Eden and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Or jump into a head-to-head
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle