How rare is the name Eddie?

109,400 people in the United States have the first name Eddie, about 1 in 2,761. It ranks #516 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EDDIE

#516

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
109,400
About
1 in 2,761
This common or more
59%
Who bears it

Of the 109,400 people named Eddie, 35.1% reported their origin as White, 34.2% as Black and 23.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Eddie peaked in 1947, when 4,715 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1947
Births that year
4,715
In 2025*
287 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 227,627 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Eddie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #159. The largest share of babies named Eddie, 33.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#2231,746
1890s#2262,737
1900s#1994,495
1910s#22312,722
1920s#22920,442
1930s#17625,267
1940s#15937,452
1950s#19840,178
1960s#24531,254
1970s#33716,200
1980s#43012,198
1990s#5849,736
2000s#8247,143
2010s#1,2864,236
2020s#1,6801,821
Before 19012.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2714.4%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.8%
Baby boom 1946–6433.7%
Generation X 1965–8013.1%
Millennials 1981–968%
Generation Z 1997–124.9%
2013 and later2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Eddie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Eddie has been most common in Mississippi (5.8×), Alabama (3.7×), and Arkansas (3.1×), and least common in Maine (0.07×).

213,242 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Eddie

#514 Gabriella · 109,553#515 Tristan · 109,402#517 Cecilia · 109,389#518 Norman · 109,382

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Eddie, most common first.

#3,608 Edie · 5,667#17,619 Eddi · 622#32,402 Eddye · 260#52,133 Edde · 109

Also a last name

As a last name, Eddie ranks #18,191 of 156,621, with 1,508 people. See Eddie as a last name

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