Edwård
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edwård is a male 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”).
- PLPoland1 in 525(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 540
- GYGuyana1 in 941
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)
- Record sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- 1 in 525 (inferred from the name graph)
616,122 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)- Middle EnglishEdward(measured from records)
- Old EnglishĒadweard(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*Audawardu(measured from records)
- 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”).
Cited for this meaning 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)Edwård 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 | #661 | 616,122 | 1 in 540 | 615K | Edward | 375 |
| PL Poland | — | 72,934 | 1 in 525 | 76K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,142 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.1K | — | 22 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,985 | 1 in 3.4K | 5K | — | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,103 | 1 in 68K | 3.1K | Edward | 147 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,770 | 1 in 3.1K | 3.1K | — | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 797 | 1 in 941 | 797 | — | — |
| PA Panama | #15 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Edward | 71 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edwård 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 Edwård a male or female name?
- Edwård 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 Edwård have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 616 thousand people named Edwård, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edward.
- Where is Edwård most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edwård 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 Edwård?
- In the United States, the national register counted 616,122 people named Edwård in 2020, about 1 in 540 residents.
- How common is Edwård compared with other names?
- In the United States, Edwård is the 661st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edw%C3%A5rdThe 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, “Edwård” — the 661st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.