How rare is the name Edmond?

13,062 people in the United States have the first name Edmond, about 1 in 23,123. It ranks #2,079 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EDMOND

#2,079

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,062
About
1 in 23,123
This common or more
78.4%
Who bears it

Of the 13,062 people named Edmond, 60.9% reported their origin as White, 21.6% as Black and 8.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Edmond peaked in 1920, when 433 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
433
In 2025*
75 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 24,900 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.

Edmond by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #560. The largest share of babies named Edmond, 25.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#560429
1890s#650469
1900s#711558
1910s#6002,727
1920s#6323,842
1930s#6862,941
1940s#7863,040
1950s#9283,112
1960s#1,2002,151
1970s#1,5131,549
1980s#1,9501,224
1990s#2,819927
2000s#3,915798
2010s#4,353729
2020s#4,599404
Before 19013.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2725.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.6%
Baby boom 1946–6422.7%
Generation X 1965–8010.6%
Millennials 1981–967%
Generation Z 1997–125.1%
2013 and later3.7%

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 Edmond is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Edmond has been most common in Rhode Island (4.1×), Louisiana (4×), and Massachusetts (3.1×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.09×).

18,184 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Edmond ranks #3,696 of 156,621, with 9,342 people. See Edmond as a last name

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