Eden
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘Person from Castle Eden or Eden Burn’, County Durham; (ii) from Edun, from Old English Eadhun, literally ‘wealth-bearcub’; (iii) from a Frisian name meaning ‘son of Ede’; (iv) from a Jewish name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Eden is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AIAnguilla
- NZNew Zealand
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Castle Edenor(measured from records)
- Old EnglishEadhun(measured from records)
(i) ‘Person from Castle Eden or Eden Burn’, County Durham; (ii) from Edun, from Old English Eadhun, literally ‘wealth-bearcub’; (iii) from a Frisian name meaning ‘son of Ede’; (iv) from a Jewish name referring to the garden of Eden
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eden counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 36K | Eden | 432 |
| AI Anguilla | — | — | Eden | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | Eden | 86 |
| AU Australia | — | 234 | Eden | 168 |
| CA Canada | — | 38 | Eden | 161 |
| FR France | — | 27K | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3.1K | — | 4 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Eden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
As a given name, Eden is used for both boys and girls and is most often a reference to the biblical Garden of Eden, meaning "delight" or "place of pleasure".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The Hebrew name Eden (עֵדֶן) means "pleasure" or "delight". It is the same name used for the biblical Garden of Eden.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In French, Biblical Hebrew, name of paradise; ‘delight’ or ‘pleasure’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer counts: 69 and 345.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In English, Hebrew; the place of pleasure (from the Garden of Eden)
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Eden, 1st Earl of Aucklandb. 1784GBBritish politician (1784-1849)
- Anthony Edenb. 1897GBBritish soldier, diplomat and politician (1897–1977)
- Eden Riegelb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Harry Edenb. 1990GBBritish actor
- Eden Hazardb. 1991BEBelgian footballer (born 1991)
- Eden Sherb. 1991USAmerican actress (born 1991)
- Eden Brolinb. 1994USAmerican actress
- CupcakKeb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Eden Aleneb. 2000ILIsraeli singer
- Eden Golanb. 2003ILIsraeli singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 113 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36K | #1,006 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 27K | #13 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #186 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.5K | #4,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.1K | #4,597 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.6K | #1,006 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.9K | #4,717 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 551 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eden mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘Person from Castle Eden or Eden Burn’, County Durham; (ii) from Edun, from Old English Eadhun, literally ‘wealth-bearcub’; (iii) from a Frisian name meaning ‘son of Ede’; (iv) from a Jewish name… Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Eden have the most bearers?
- Eden is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled eden.
What do you want to know about Eden?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edenThe 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, “Eden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.