Eddy
Eddy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 115 births. Its best rank was 449th, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1150.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1956246 births
- Best rank
- #449in 1947
- Since 1884
- 14,318people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,933 boys have been named Eddy in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 246 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 385 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eddy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 51 | |
| 1910s | 145 | |
| 1920s | 359 | |
| 1930s | 763 | |
| 1940s | 1,610 | |
| 1950s | 2,185 | |
| 1960s | 1,803 | |
| 1970s | 1,008 | |
| 1980s | 999 | |
| 1990s | 1,362 | |
| 2000s | 1,672 | |
| 2010s | 1,401 | |
| 2020s | 549 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Eddy was the 484th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Eddy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freddypeak 1947
- Frankiepeak 1959
- Rudypeak 1960
- Alanpeak 1955
- Jonnypeak 2008
- Vaughnpeak 1949
- Jackypeak 1953
- Gilpeak 1957
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.