Edris
Feminine
Edris is given to both — 706 girls and 408 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Edris arrives in American records from at least three unconnected directions, and it is given to daughters as well as sons. One of those directions is a Welsh mountain with a famous piece of folklore attached to it.
How old is the name Edris?
Edris first appears in US birth records in 1899 — 126 years ago. The typical Edris alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 200 people named Edris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Edris most popular?
Edris peaked in 1904, reaching #910 nationally. See the whole 1904 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Edris
A mountain in southern Snowdonia is called the chair of Idris, after a figure who is a giant in the folklore and a poet-astronomer in the older Welsh material — the sort of person who could sit on a summit and read the sky. The legend attached to it is one of the best known in Wales: anyone who spends a night alone on the mountain comes down either a poet or a madman. It is repeated in guidebooks, and it is old enough that nineteenth-century travelers were already reporting it as ancient. What makes the mountain worth the climb regardless is the hollow below the summit, a textbook glacial bowl with a black lake in it that looks exactly as though something enormous sat there. The name of the chair may have been describing the hollow rather than the peak all along.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Three separate origins are possible. A Welsh men's name usually read as ardent lord; an Arabic prophet's name of disputed derivation; and an Old English women's name worn down. Each is plausible for different American families, and the spelling alone cannot say which.
Pronouncing Edris
ED-riss
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The Welsh and Arabic originals both put more weight on the second syllable, so the American reading is the odd one out.
Nicknames for Edris
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
- 1899
- Most girls named
- 191524 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #910reached in 1904
- Change vs 1970
- −33.3%6 in 1973, from 9
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.
Edris in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Idris in Welsh — related form
- إدريس in Arabic — related form
Edriss among us
people named Edris are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Edris 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
- Ed comes off it as a short form that needs no explanation anywhere.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Two syllables with front stress is easy to say and impossible to mangle.
- Idris is the standard spelling in both Welsh and Arabic and will be written for it.
- The three possible origins have different pronunciations, so the name is said several ways.
- The record holds it for daughters as well, so it signals nothing about sex.
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Frequently asked
- How many Edriss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Edris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Edris in 2025?
- Edris is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Edris with classmates?
- Edris will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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