Edwàrd

given name · Latin script

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

Edwàrd 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 Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz, corresponding to ed (“wealth, riches”) + ward (“ward, guard”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 540(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 525
  • GYGuyana1 in 941

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

616,122 people, 2020

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 525 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

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 Edward in US United States, EC Ecuador, IE Ireland.

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 Edwàrd: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Edwàrd
  1. Middle EnglishEdward(measured from records)
  2. Old EnglishĒadweard(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*Audawardu(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*Audawarduz(measured from records)

From Middle English Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz, corresponding to ed (“wealth, riches”) + ward (“ward, guard”).

Sources 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • 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

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Edwàrd 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 Edwàrd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—616,1221 in 540615KEdward78
PL Poland—72,9341 in 52576K—1
SE Sweden—7,1421 in 1.4K7.1K—5
EC Ecuador—4,9851 in 3.4K5KEdward4
BR Brazil—3,1031 in 68K3.1K—1
FI Finland—1,7701 in 3.1K3.1K—5
GY Guyana—7971 in 941797—1
IE Ireland#749———Edward12

616,122 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Edwàrd is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, France, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Edward, Ëdwärd, Edwärd, E'Dward, Édward

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Edwàrd 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 Edwàrd mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz, corresponding to ed (“wealth, riches”) + ward (“ward, guard”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 7 other sources.
Is Edwàrd a male or female name?
Edwàrd 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 Edwàrd have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 616 thousand people named Edwàrd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edward.
Where is Edwàrd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edwàrd is densest in Poland — about 1 in 525 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Edwàrd?
In the United States, the national register counted 616,122 people named Edwàrd in 2020, about 1 in 540 residents.
How common is Edwàrd compared with other names?
In Ireland, Edwàrd is the 749th most common given name of 14,976 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, “Edwàrd” — the 749th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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