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Edric vs Edrie

American parents have registered 1,732 Edrics since 1880, against 769 Edries. Edric is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Edric Edrie

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, Edric for 69 years and Edrie for 56 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Edric Edrie
Total US births 1,732769
Most in one year 13742
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 1,700120
Median age today 1578
Peak year 20181908
Best rank 1,324th boys574th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240thunranked
First recorded 19141889
Girls / boys 0 / 1,732769 / 0

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 Edries alive today are over 78; half the Edrics are over 15. That is 63 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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