Êddÿ

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Êddÿ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 517(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 725
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 914

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈24,000 people, est.

Sources
342 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 517 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eddy in FR France, US United States, NI Nicaragua and 5 more.

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)

Derivation of Êddÿ: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Êddÿ
  1. Middle Englisheddy(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishedēa(measured from records)
  3. Old English rooted-“turning“turning, back, reverse”(measured from records)
  4. 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”).

Sources 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

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Êddÿ 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.

Where Êddÿ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#297≈24,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Eddy26
FR France#422≈23,000 est.≈1 in 3K25KEddy341
US United States—17,6871 in 19K19KEddy342
DO Dominican Republic#31≈14,000 est.≈1 in 725—Eddy68
GT Guatemala#98≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Eddy58
BE Belgium#284≈13,000 est.≈1 in 9144Eddy109
EC Ecuador#33612,4731 in 1.4K12KEddy56
NI Nicaragua#59≈12,000 est.≈1 in 517—Eddy33

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Êddÿ is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Eddy, Eddie, เอ็ดดี้, เอ็ดดี, เอดดี

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Belgium, Peru

    Also written Eddy, Èḑḑy

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Êddÿ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Êddÿ 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.
Is Êddÿ a male or female name?
Êddÿ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Êddÿ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Êddÿ in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eddy.
How common is the name Êddÿ?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,687 people named Êddÿ in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Êddÿ compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Êddÿ is the 297th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.

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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, “Êddÿ” — the 297th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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