Edwárd

given name · Latin script

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

Edwárd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Panama it is the 15th most common given name. 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)
  • BRBrazil1 in 68K
  • PAPanama≈1 in 3.8M

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.

United States (measured from records)

616,122 people, 2020

Sources
375 (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, BR Brazil, PA Panama.

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 Edwárd: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Edwárd
  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)

Edwárd 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 Edwárd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#661616,1221 in 540615KEdward375
PL Poland—72,9341 in 52576K—1
SE Sweden—7,1421 in 1.4K7.1K—22
EC Ecuador—4,9851 in 3.4K5K—29
BR Brazil—3,1031 in 68K3.1KEdward147
FI Finland—1,7701 in 3.1K3.1K—7
GY Guyana—7971 in 941797——
PA Panama#15≈1 est.≈1 in 3.8M—Edward71

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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; 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)

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

  • Russian given name128 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Эдуард, Едуард, Edward, Eduard, Эдвард

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 Edwárd 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 Edwárd 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 Edwárd a male or female name?
Edwárd 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 Edwárd have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 616 thousand people named Edwárd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edward.
Where is Edwárd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edwárd 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 Edwárd?
In the United States, the national register counted 616,122 people named Edwárd in 2020, about 1 in 540 residents.
How common is Edwárd compared with other names?
In the United States, Edwárd is the 661st most common given name of 2,815,431 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, “Edwárd” — the 661st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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