Edward
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Ēadweard ‘prosperity-guard’; first attested Eaduuardus, Eduuard(us), Æduuardus 1066 DB
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edward is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Laos it is the 19th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 288(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 309
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 340
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 Edward itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #85 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 657 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 288 (inferred from the name graph)
658,697 named Eduardo, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eduard in BR Brazil and Eduardo in LA Laos.
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 OE Ēadweard ‘prosperity-guard’; first attested Eaduuardus, Eduuard(us), Æduuardus 1066 DB
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edward 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 658,697as Eduardo | 1 in 321 | 659K | Eduard | 81 |
| US United States | #33 | 616,122 | 1 in 540 | 615K | Edward | 657 |
| GB United Kingdom | #43 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 309 | 1.5K | Edward | 375 |
| EG Egypt | #354 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 856 | — | Edward | 74 |
| IT Italy | #102 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | 71 | Edward | 118 |
| IE Ireland | #27 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Edward | 147 |
| NZ New Zealand | #39 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 340 | — | Edward | 172 |
| LA Laos | #19 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 535 | — | Eduardo | 14 |
| MD Moldova | #408 | 9,707as Eduard | 1 in 347 | 9.7K | Edward | 23 |
658,697 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling eduardo. 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Edward 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.
In English, from the personal name Edward; earliest cited 1538, Merioneth: Hoell ap Bedward.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, from Welsh Iorwerth; earliest cited 1215-1350 (three instances).
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, Eadward, composed of the elements ead prosperity, for¬ tune + w(e)ard guard. Although apparently of exclusively OE origin, the given name also became popular on the Continent, perhaps as a result of the fame of the two can¬ onized kings of England, Edward the Martyr (962-79) and Edward the Confessor (1004-66). They certainly contrib¬ uted largely to its great popularity in England.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A male given name from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Edward (m.fl. former) är ett engelskt namn, sammansatt av fornengelskans ēad ’rikedom; egendom’ och weard ’väktare’. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 18 mars, efter en engelsk kung, Edvard martyren (död 978), som blev helgonförklarad.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Edward IIIb. 1312GBKing of England from 1327 to 1377
- Edward Burnett Tylorb. 1832GBEnglish anthropologist (1832–1917)
- Edward Calvin Kendallb. 1886USAmerican chemist (1886-1972)
- Edward Victor Appletonb. 1892GBEnglish physicist (1892–1965)
- John Bowlbyb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameBritish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1907–1990)
- Edward Heathb. 1916GBPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 (1916–2005)
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorb. 1960GBnot in their usual namethird child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)
- Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburghb. 1964GBBritish prince (born 1964); youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Edward Nortonb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Edward Snowdenb. 1983USAmerican whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)
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 151 sources across 75 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 615K | #67 |
| 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) | — | 3.1K | #3,797 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,369 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.6K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 1.5K | #31 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 721 | #67 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 351 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 117 | #877 |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Edward mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE Ēadweard ‘prosperity-guard’; first attested Eaduuardus, Eduuard(us), Æduuardus 1066 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Edward?
- In the etymology graph, Eduardo, Dudu and Eduard are forms of the same name in other languages; Eddie, Ted and Ed are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Edward a male or female name?
- Edward 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 Edward have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 659 thousand people named Eduardo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Edward?
- In the United States, the national register counted 616,122 people named Edward in 2020, about 1 in 540 residents.
- How common is Edward compared with other names?
- In Laos, Edward is the 19th most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edwardThe 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, “Edward” — the 19th most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.