Edmonia
Feminine
Edmonia is one of those rare names that belongs almost entirely to a single person. Look for it in the record and you find a handful of women, and behind them one sculptor who carved in Rome and shipped a two-ton marble across the Atlantic.
How old is the name Edmonia?
Edmonia was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Edmonia alive today was born around 1919, making them about 106 years old. About 100 people named Edmonia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Edmonia most popular?
Edmonia peaked in 1880, reaching #518 nationally. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Edmond to Edmonia
The story of Edmonia
Edmonia Lewis was the daughter of a Haitian father and an Ojibwe mother, orphaned young, put through school by a brother who had made money in the gold fields, and driven out of Oberlin after being accused of poisoning two classmates and beaten by a mob. She went to Boston, learned to carve, and then to Rome, where she worked in marble at a time when sculptors of her sex were expected to hire men to do the cutting — she did it herself, partly so that nobody could say otherwise. Her Death of Cleopatra weighed two tons, was shown at the Philadelphia exposition, then lost for a century, turning up eventually in a suburban shopping mall and later in a salvage yard before it was recognized and restored.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name appears to be a feminine built on Edmond, itself an Old English compound about prosperity and protection. But it is rare enough that no standard account exists, and it may equally have been made up in one household and copied from there.
How the name formed
- Edmond
- Edmonia
Pronouncing Edmonia
ed-MOH-nee-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Nothing in the spelling is ambiguous.
Nicknames for Edmonia
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
- 192229 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #518reached in 1880
- Change vs 1957
- −37.5%5 in 1960, from 8
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.
Edmonias among us
people named Edmonia 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
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Edmonia 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
- It is carried by almost nobody, and the one person it is associated with is worth being associated with.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so it is never mispronounced.
- It is long enough to offer several very different short forms.
- It is rare enough that she will spell it out every time.
- It will be heard as Edmonda, Emonia or Simone by people working from sound.
- The name is so closely tied to one woman that a child carrying it inherits an expectation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Edmonias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Edmonia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Edmonia in 2025?
- Edmonia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Edmonia with classmates?
- Edmonia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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