How Many People Are Named Ed?
people named Ed are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 41,854 people in the US has this name
Based on 26,370 babies named Ed in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
696 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of EDWARD, EDMUND, and other names beginning with Ed.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Ed in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ed alive today is about 64 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 60 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ed first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1959, to 696 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Ed never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #54, in 1882 and 1885, and it was in the top 100 in 20 years between 1880 and 1900.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #54 (1882 and 1885) |
| Years in the top 100 | 20 (1880 to 1900) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #407 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ed alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ed were born in California than in any other state: about 1,079 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ed was given 2.9 times as often in Mississippi, 2.6 times in Washington and 2.5 times in Alabama.
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