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Edra vs Edric

American parents have registered 1,732 Edrics since 1880, against 1,431 Edras. Edric is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edra against Edric, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edra Edric

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 125 years in which either name was published, Edra for 63 years and Edric for 62 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Edra Edric
Total US births 1,4311,732
Most in one year 42137
Babies in 2025 under 536
Estimated living today 4001,700
Median age today 7415
Peak year 19202018
Best rank 1,171st girls1,324th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,240th
First recorded 19011914
Girls / boys 1,431 / 00 / 1,732

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 Edras alive today are over 74; half the Edrics are over 15. That is 59 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.

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