Edison
loc · Latin script
Meaning: An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edison is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 208(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K
- ALAlbania1 in 1.3K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- 1 in 208 (inferred from the name graph)
81,224 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Édison in EC Ecuador, CO Colombia, PE Peru and Edisón in CL Chile.
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)
An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edison 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 81,224 | 1 in 208 | 81K | Édison | 86 |
| CN China | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Edison | 20 |
| CO Colombia | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 23 | Édison | 137 |
| BR Brazil | 33,343 | 1 in 6.3K | 35K | Edison | 163 |
| US United States | 11,547 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Edison | 268 |
| PE Peru | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Édison | 74 |
| CL Chile | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 14 | Edisón | 83 |
| AL Albania | 2,289 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.3K | — | — |
81,224 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024, counting the spelling edison. 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: INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Edison is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘Son of Bade’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Thomas. US inventor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Figlio di Edward
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Croatian, američki tehnički genije, patentirao preko 1000 izuma (žarulja s ugljenom niti, fonograf, filmski projektor)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Thomas Edisonb. 1847USAmerican inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
- Mina Millerb. 1865not in their usual nameCommunity activist, second wife of Thomas Edison
- Thomas Alva Edison Jr.b. 1876USAmerican inventor (1876–1935)
- Edison Pettitb. 1889USAmerican astronomer (1889–1962)
- Charles Edisonb. 1890USAmerican politician (1890–1969)
- Edison Marshallb. 1894USAmerican writer (1894-1967)
- Edison Denisovb. 1929RUSoviet and Russian composer (1929–1996)
- Matthew Edisonb. 1975CACanadian actor
- Edison Chenb. 1980CAHong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer
- Edison Floresb. 1994PEPeruvian 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 93 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 81K | #17 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 35K | #996 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 33K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33K | #758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,257 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.3K | #155 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 276 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 192 | #2,257 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 191 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 171 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #758 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 23 | #98 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Edison mean, and where does it come from?
- An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Edison have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Edison, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled édison.
- Where is Edison most common?
- Edison is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 208 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Edison?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 81,224 people named Edison in 2024, about 1 in 208 residents.
What do you want to know about Edison?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edisonThe 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, “Edison”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.