Edson
The boy's name Edson has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,692 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,728th. About 3,600 Edsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Edson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,692
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 1,441st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,728th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Edsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,692 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,600 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 240 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Edsons
- Edson Álvarez (born 1997)Mexican association football player
- Edson Braafheid (born 1983)Dutch association football player
- Edson Buddle (born 1981)American soccer player
- Edson Tavares (born 1956)Brazilian association football player and manager
- Edson Puch (born 1986)Chilean footballer
- Edson Rodrigues (born 1967)Brazilian association football player
- Edson Aparecido de Souza (born 1962)Brazilian association football player
- Edson Araújo (born 1980)Brazilian association football player
People named Edson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Edson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Edson is most concentrated in California (4.6×), Texas (3.7×), Utah (2.3×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Edson peaked:
Edson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Edson | 415 | 1,721st |
| England and Wales boys | Edson | 108 | 1,401st |
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.
Edson 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 | Edson | 7 | 12 |
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 Edson lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 326 men called Edson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Edson | 5 | 0.030 | 1,658 |
| Burgos | Edson | 5 | 0.028 | 1,579 |
| Barcelona | Edson | 76 | 0.026 | 1,894 |
| Lleida | Edson | 6 | 0.025 | 2,057 |
| Navarra | Edson | 7 | 0.021 | 2,287 |
| Pontevedra | Edson | 9 | 0.020 | 1,690 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 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
Edson 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.