Ede

loc · Latin script

Meaning: from the medieval female personal name Eda, a shortened form of Edith, or from the medieval male personal name Ede, a shortened form of Adam

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ede is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • 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.

Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the medieval female personal name Eda, a shortened form of Edith, or from the medieval male personal name Ede, a shortened form of Adam.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ede counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ede is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands—134Ede40
US United States—848Ede223
GB United Kingdom—listedEde152
BR Brazil—1.3K—2
IN India—360—15
FI Finland—78—3

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ede is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Edé, Éde, Êde, Edê

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Edé

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ede 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 Dutch, dative singular of eed

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Sweetness

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Kurdish, alternative form of ade (“weed (unwanted plant)”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mqs, alternative form of edeng (“two”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Ede Reményi, b. 1828Eduard Mahler, b. 1857James Chuter Ede, b. 1882László Almásy, b. 1895Ede Zathureczky, b. 1903Andrei Glanzmann, b. 1907Edward Teller, b. 1908Ede Király, b. 1926Ede Dunai, b. 1949Chinedu Ede, b. 1987
  • Ede Reményib. 1828HUHungarian violinist and composer (1828–1898)
  • Eduard Mahlerb. 1857HUnot in their usual nameAustro-Hungarian scientist
  • James Chuter Edeb. 1882GBBritish Labour politician (1882–1965)
  • László Almásyb. 1895HUnot in their usual nameHungarian desert explorer and aviator (1895-1951)
  • Ede Zathureczkyb. 1903HUHungarian violinist (1903-1959)
  • Andrei Glanzmannb. 1907ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer (1907-1988)
  • Edward Tellerb. 1908HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
  • Ede Királyb. 1926HUHungarian figure skater (1926–2009)
  • Ede Dunaib. 1949HUfootball player
  • Chinedu Edeb. 1987DEGerman 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 55 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Ede
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020848#29,648
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010807#29,309
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000751#29,598
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—540#6,575
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—360#11,757
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—78#15,495
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20077#71,503
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • 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
  • 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

What does the name Ede mean, and where does it come from?
from the medieval female personal name Eda, a shortened form of Edith, or from the medieval male personal name Ede, a shortened form of Adam. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Ede have the most bearers?
Ede is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands, where it is most often spelled ede.

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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, “Ede”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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