Edison

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Edison is ranked 827th among boys in 2024 (300 births). Its best rank was 538th, in 1917, 2018.

Rank in 2024: #827down 4 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3000.02% of boys
Peak year: 2018522 births
Best rank: #538first in 1917
Since 1891: 12,244people given the name

Babies named Edison, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

12,244 boys have been named Edison in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 522 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 693 → 827).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Edison
1890s	63
1900s	99
1910s	649
1920s	771
1930s	502
1940s	470
1950s	543
1960s	434
1970s	337
1980s	421
1990s	610
2000s	1,555
2010s	3,936
2020s	1,854

In 2018, its biggest year

Edison was the 538th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Edison

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.