How Many People Are Named Eddy?
people named Eddy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 31,144 people in the US has this name
Based on 14,431 babies named Eddy in Social Security records from 1884 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
253 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of EDWARD, EDMUND, and other names beginning with Ed.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Eddy in English. Counting Eddy and these spellings together, about 134,154 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Eddy, 2.7% were girls and 97.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 6.6% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Eddy alive today is about 41 years old, and 39% are under 30. Half of them were between 19 and 64 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Eddy first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1956, to 253 babies. In 2025, 113 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Eddy has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #449, in 1947. In 2025 it ranked #1,605.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,605 |
| Best rank | #449 (1947) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #501 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Eddy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Eddy were born in California than in any other state: about 1,836 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Eddy was given 2.5 times as often in Texas, 2.4 times in Florida and 2.2 times in California.
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