Edinburgh
loc · Latin script
Meaning: city. Scotland
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edinburgh is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- IEIreland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
city. Scotland
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edinburgh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Edinburgh | 57 |
| US United States | — | 217 | Edinburgh | 112 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Edinburgh | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | — | Edinburgh | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Edinburgh | 4 |
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: the scottish-surnames-ross-1994 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Edinburgh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, glavni grad Škotske, na obali Forthskog zaljeva (Sjeverno more), 420.000 stan.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Justin Edinburghb. 1969GBEnglish association football player and manager (1969-2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edinburgh mean, and where does it come from?
- city. Scotland Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Edinburgh have the most bearers?
- Edinburgh is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled edinburgh.
What do you want to know about Edinburgh?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edinburghThe 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, “Edinburgh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.