Edson
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iðõ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Edson is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
- BRBrazil1 in 541(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 994
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- 1 in 541 (inferred from the name graph)
391,040 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edson 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.
391,040 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edson Strollb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929-2011)
- Peléb. 1940BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (1940–2022)
- Edson Tavaresb. 1956BRBrazilian association football player and manager
- Edson Rodriguesb. 1967BRBrazilian association football player
- Edson Buddleb. 1981USAmerican soccer player
- Edson Braafheidb. 1983NLDutch association football player (born 1983)
- Edson Barbozab. 1986BRBrazilian martial artist
- Edson André Sitoeb. 1988MZMozambican footballer
- Edson dos Santos Reisb. 1990BRBrazilian association football player
- Edson Álvarezb. 1997MXMexican association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 432K | #100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 391K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 390K | #71 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #71 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #29 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Edson a male or female name?
- Edson 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.
- What does the name Edson mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Edson?
- A machine transcription gives /iðõ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Edson have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 391 thousand people named Edson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edson.
- Where is Edson most common?
- Edson is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 541 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Edson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 391,040 people named Edson in 2022, about 1 in 541 residents.
- How common is Edson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Edson is the 70th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Edson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edsonThe 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, “Edson” — the 70th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.