Ędward

given name · Latin script

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

Ędward is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 616,122 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 67th. In Slovakia it is the 59th 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”). Ędward is also written Эдуард in Cyrillic.

  • PLPoland1 in 525(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 540
  • SESweden1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ędward itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)

616,122 people, 2020

#506 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
373 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 525 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Ędward in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
ĘdwardLatin(measured from records)
ЭдуардĘdward in Cyrillic(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Edward in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia, Eduard in MD Moldova, SK Slovakia, Эдуард in RU Russia and Едуард in UA Ukraine.

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

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 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ędward 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 Ędward is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—616,1221 in 540615KEdward373
RU Russia#83≈260,000 est.≈1 in 546register #50Эдуард196
PL Poland#10872,9341 in 52576KEdward161
UA Ukraine#95≈46,000 est.≈1 in 816listedЕдуард83
CZ Czechia#9717,416as Eduard1 in 61517KEdward104
MD Moldova#3919,707as Eduard1 in 3479.7KEduard27
SK Slovakia#59≈6,000 est.≈1 in 910—Eduard116

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); MVČR — living population register 2017; e-services.md — living population register. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ędward 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 Ędward 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 Ędward a male or female name?
Ędward 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.
Which countries have the most people named Ędward?
In the United States, the national register counted about 616 thousand people named Ędward, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edward. After it come Russia, Poland, Ukraine and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Ędward most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ędward 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 Ędward?
In the United States, the national register counted 616,122 people named Ędward in 2020, about 1 in 540 residents.
How common is Ędward compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Ędward is the 59th most common given name of 9,943 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, “Ędward” — ranked 67th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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