Edmon
Masculine · “Wealth's protector”
The second half of Edmund is a word for a hand, and specifically a hand held over somebody. Mund meant protection in the concrete sense: the hand of a lord or a father extended over a household, and the legal duty that came with it. A name ending in it is a promise rather than a description.
How old is the name Edmon?
Edmon first appears in US birth records in 1887 — 138 years ago. The typical Edmon alive today was born around 1932, making them about 93 years old. About 400 people named Edmon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Edmon most popular?
Edmon peaked in 1892, reaching #688 nationally. See the whole 1892 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Eadmund to Edmon
The story of Edmon
The English king who carried it was killed by a Danish army in the ninth century and became the country's patron saint for four hundred years afterwards. The story that grew up says he was tied to a tree and shot with arrows, then beheaded, and that when his followers went looking for the head it answered them when they called, being guarded by a wolf that had taken it between its paws and would not eat it. The wolf then walked with them to the burial. It is a legend and it is a very old one, and it is why medieval English churches are full of carvings of a wolf holding a crowned head, an image that meant something instantly to people who could not read.
Meaning
Wealth's protector
Old English ead, wealth or prosperity, and mund, a protecting hand. The first element is the same one at the front of Edward, Edgar and Edith, and the second stands at the end of Raymond and Osmond. Both halves are transparent, which is unusual for a name this old, and this spelling changes only the vowel of the second.
How the name formed
- Eadmund
- Edmund
- Edmon
Related forms: Edmond · Edmundo · Edmondo
Pronouncing Edmon
ED-mun
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The second vowel is reduced to nothing, which is why the o here and the u in the standard spelling and the o in the French version are all said the same way.
Nicknames for Edmon
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
- 1887
- Most boys named
- 192435 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #688reached in 1892
- Change vs 2018
- −16.7%5 in 2020, 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.
Edmon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Edmond in French — same name
- Edmundo in Spanish — same name
- Edmondo in Italian — same name
Edmons among us
people named Edmon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Edmon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves have transparent meanings, which very few names of this age can offer.
- Ed and Ned are two short forms centuries apart in flavor.
- It is recognizable in French, Spanish and Italian with almost no change.
- Edmund and Edmond are both far commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- It reads as an older man's name in America, though it has begun to shift back.
- The final syllable is unstressed, so the spelling difference cannot be heard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Edmons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Edmon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Edmon in 2025?
- Edmon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Edmon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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