Eddie
Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo, Edmundo or Ed. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:
- English
Meaning & Origin of Eddie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo, Edmundo or Ed. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Eddie
As a girl name
Eddie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1880, with 12 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1922: 379 births, good for #333 nationwide. About 22% of every Eddie on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Eddie last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 10 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 16K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Eddie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1880, with 129 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1947: 4,457 births, good for #80 nationwide. As of 2026, Eddie ranks #983 for boys with 229 births, falling sharply (-23%). All told, over 212K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Eddie
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Eddie. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Eddie
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About the name Eddie
Eddie is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1880 and has accumulated 212K births in the dataset. Eddie's peak popularity came in 1947 when it ranked #59. Use the chart and map above to compare Eddie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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