Edwàrds
surname · Latin script
Edwàrds is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 332,423 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010, which ranks it 53rd. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. in Wales. variant of Edward with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s. Edwàrds is also written 에드워즈 in Korean (Hangul).
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 92(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 151
- DMDominica1 in 219
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- #248 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 602 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92 (inferred from the name graph)
332,423 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Edwàrds in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Edwards in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 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)Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. in Wales. variant of Edward with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Edwàrds is found
(measured from records)Edwàrds 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 | #51 | 332,423 | 1 in 1K | 332K | Edwards | 602 |
| GB United Kingdom | #27 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 583 | — | Edwards | 364 |
| AU Australia | #32 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 657 | 1 | Edwards | 284 |
| CA Canada | #50 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Edwards | 260 |
| ZA South Africa | #342 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Edwards | 114 |
| JM Jamaica | #14 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 466 | — | Edwards | 45 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,797 | 1 in 268 | 2.8K | — | 14 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1,104 | 1 in 92 | 1.1K | — | 12 |
| GD Grenada | — | 747 | 1 in 151 | 747 | — | 16 |
| DM Dominica | — | 339 | 1 in 219 | 339 | — | 9 |
332,423 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edwàrds mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. in Wales. variant of Edward with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Edwàrds?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 332 thousand people named Edwàrds, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edwards. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Edwàrds most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edwàrds is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 92 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Edwàrds?
- In the United States, the national register counted 332,423 people named Edwàrds in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Edwàrds compared with other names?
- In the United States, Edwàrds is the 51st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames 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, “Edwàrds” — ranked 53rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.