Eddie
Eddie is ranked 941st among boys in 2024 (243 births). Its best rank was 59th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- #941down 80 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2430.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19474,457 births
- Best rank
- #59in 1910
- Since 1880
- 227,332people given the name
The story in the numbers
211,579 boys have been named Eddie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 4,457 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 243 births in 2024, against 4,457 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 56 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 15,753 girls have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eddie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,526 | |
| 1890s | 2,284 | |
| 1900s | 3,695 | |
| 1910s | 10,507 | |
| 1920s | 16,921 | |
| 1930s | 22,328 | |
| 1940s | 34,806 | |
| 1950s | 38,595 | |
| 1960s | 30,575 | |
| 1970s | 15,872 | |
| 1980s | 12,005 | |
| 1990s | 9,665 | |
| 2000s | 7,108 | |
| 2010s | 4,207 | |
| 2020s | 1,485 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Eddie was the 80th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Eddie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonniepeak 1947
- Berniepeak 1960
- Alpeak 1959
- Jamespeak 1947
- Stewartpeak 1956
- Lawrencepeak 1952
- Allenpeak 1951
- Halpeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.