Edo
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Love.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 8.8K
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
Love
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 2 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 5 | Edo | 74 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,394 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | — | 15 |
| HR Croatia | 870 | 1 in 4.9K | 870 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 388 | 1 in 546K | 479 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 240 | 1 in 8.8K | 240 | — | 2 |
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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SURS — resident population given names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Edo 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, ]. former name, Tokyo
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) Eddo: männl. Vom., nieder deutsch-friesische Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Ed-« beginnen.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, Edo (the former name of Tokyo, the capital city of Japan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, wooden pole or stake, especially when erect
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lzz, Latin spelling of ედო (edo)
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)
- Edo Murtićb. 1921HRCroatian painter (1921-2005)
- Edo de Waartb. 1941NLDutch conductor (born 1941)
- Edo Bertogliob. 1951CHSwiss film director and photographer (born 1951)
- Edo Akemib. 1953JPJapanese musician
- Edo Castrob. 1957USAmerican musician
- Edo Brunnerb. 1970NLDutch actor (born 1970)
- Edo Murićb. 1991SISlovenian basketball player (born 1991)
- Bas Kuipersb. 1994NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer
- Edo Kayembeb. 1998CDCongolese association football player
- Edo Van BreemenCAfilm composer
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 64 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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 Edo mean, and where does it come from?
- Love Recorded by The book of African names.
- In which country does Edo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Edo in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Edo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edo is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Edo?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,394 people named Edo, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Edo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.