Êddý
given name · Latin script
Êddý is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.4K
- SESweden1 in 9.3K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
17,687 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eddy in US United States, EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englisheddy(measured from records)
- Old Englishedēa(measured from records)
- Old English rooted-“turning“turning, back, reverse”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁é(measured from records)
From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é, and, consequently, cognate with Latin et. Related also to Danish ide (“eddy”), Swedish eda (“eddy”), Norwegian ida, ia, ea (“eddy”), Icelandic iða (“eddy”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Êddý counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 17,687 | 1 in 19K | 19K | Eddy | 37 |
| EC Ecuador | 12,473 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Eddy | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2,146 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 1,100 | 1 in 9.3K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 718 | 1 in 295K | 718 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 179 | 1 in 33K | 140 | — | — |
17,687 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Êddý mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Êddý?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Êddý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eddy. After it come Ecuador, Costa Rica, Sweden and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Êddý most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Êddý is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Êddý?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,687 people named Êddý in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AAdd%C3%BDThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Êddý”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.