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Edie vs Edin

American parents have registered 5,752 Edies since 1880, against 1,385 Edins. Edie is still ahead, with 91 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edie against Edin, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edie Edin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Edie for 115 years and Edin for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Edie Edin
Total US births 5,7521,385
Most in one year 21166
Babies in 2025 9137
Estimated living today 5,1001,400
Median age today 3414
Peak year 19632016
Best rank 699th girls2,305th boys
Rank in 2025 2,064th3,513th
First recorded 18801977
Girls / boys 5,672 / 8099 / 1,286

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Edies alive today are over 34; half the Edins are over 14. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Edie Edin
England and Wales 6,63450
France 75310
Belgium 652

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Edie and Edin.