Edward
The 2025 national count puts Edward at #224, keeping its place without fuss. It crested back in 1924, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
What Edward carries
Edward · Teutonic
“rich guard”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Edward, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Edward since 1880
Edward peaked in 1924 at #9; #224 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Edward is most common
Among the states, Edward takes its largest share in District of Columbia, 0.44% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Maine and New Hampshire next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Edward
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Richard
#234 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with E · Teutonic names · all names
About Edward
How common is Edward today?
The 2025 national count puts Edward at #224, keeping its place without fuss. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Edward mean?
The reference we cite records “rich guard”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Edward?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Elsie sits closest, with Warren and Walter just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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