Edison
About 12,738 American babies have been named Edison since 1891, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 867th. About 10,000 Edisons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Edison boys named Edison
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,738
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 538th
- Rank in 2025
- 867th
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 216 / 12,522
How old the living Edisons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,738 babies given the name since 1891, about 10,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 6,600 of them are children and 690 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Edisons
- Édison Méndez (born 1979)Ecuadorian footballer
- Edison Flores (born 1994)Peruvian association football player
- Edison Chen (born 1980)Hong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer
- Edison Denisov (1929–1996)Soviet and Russian composer
- Edison borj (born 1990)Paraguayan footballer
- Edison Miranda (born 1981)Colombian boxer
- Edison Pettit (1889–1962)American astronomer
People named Edison with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Edison is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Edison is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.1×), Arizona (2.6×), Minnesota (2.3×), Utah (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Edison peaked:
Edison elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Edison | 1,588 | 314th |
| Switzerland boys | Edison | 176 | 338th |
| France boys | Edison | 175 | 2,169th |
| England and Wales girls | Edison | 3 | 5,687th |
| Ireland boys | Edison | 3 | 779th |
| Scotland boys | Edison | 3 | 707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Edison: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Edison | 104 | 0.008% | 348th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Edison | 66 | 0.015% | 230th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Edison | 6 | 0.009% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Edison is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Edison among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Edison | 15 | 28 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Edison lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 585 men called Edison were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rioja, La | Edison | 7 | 0.043 | 1,216 |
| Balears, Illes | Edison | 27 | 0.043 | 1,327 |
| Ourense | Edison | 6 | 0.041 | 1,056 |
| Madrid | Edison | 138 | 0.040 | 1,303 |
| Palmas, Las | Edison | 23 | 0.040 | 1,908 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Edison | 36 | 0.036 | 1,726 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Edison against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.