Meaning not yet researched.
Eda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #313 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #313 in 1885; #5,600 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,600 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #313.
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Eda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #313 in 1885 · most girls in one year: 100 (1916).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Eda, making it the 5,600th most common girls’ name of the year, up 406 places from #6,006 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 20 girls named Eda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #313, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 1916. For comparison, it was #5,884 in 2015 and #1,802 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eda in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 22 babies. In all, 4,208 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 706 babies named Eda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US girls were named Eda; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ida (188,695 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Edahi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Edahi (220).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Eda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,006 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,512 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,450 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,921 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,853 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,503 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,420 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,884 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,084 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,323 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,993 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,000 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,162 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,378 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,919 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,435 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,619 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,593 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,435 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,286 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,725 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,393 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,416 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,908 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,848 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,040 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,656 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,757 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,485 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,002 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,917 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,619 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,940 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,155 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,586 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,924 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,674 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,941 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,847 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,484 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,699 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,673 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,698 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,222 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,132 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,082 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1930 | 55 | #996 | — | — |
| 1929 | 58 | #944 | — | — |
| 1928 | 57 | #985 | — | — |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1926 | 74 | #863 | — | — |
| 1925 | 68 | #897 | — | — |
| 1924 | 73 | #881 | — | — |
| 1923 | 80 | #820 | — | — |
| 1922 | 90 | #771 | — | — |
| 1921 | 80 | #824 | — | — |
| 1920 | 72 | #852 | — | — |
| 1919 | 92 | #729 | — | — |
| 1918 | 98 | #726 | — | — |
| 1917 | 88 | #749 | — | — |
| 1916 | 100 | #685 | — | — |
| 1915 | 71 | #781 | — | — |
| 1914 | 56 | #770 | — | — |
| 1913 | 67 | #629 | — | — |
| 1912 | 49 | #717 | — | — |
| 1911 | 33 | #757 | — | — |
| 1910 | 31 | #773 | — | — |
| 1909 | 20 | #915 | — | — |
| 1908 | 35 | #653 | — | — |
| 1907 | 35 | #633 | — | — |
| 1906 | 28 | #694 | — | — |
| 1905 | 29 | #657 | — | — |
| 1904 | 30 | #632 | — | — |
| 1903 | 27 | #642 | — | — |
| 1902 | 32 | #583 | — | — |
| 1901 | 24 | #648 | — | — |
| 1900 | 36 | #583 | — | — |
| 1899 | 29 | #568 | — | — |
| 1898 | 34 | #546 | — | — |
| 1897 | 33 | #512 | — | — |
| 1896 | 47 | #420 | — | — |
| 1895 | 43 | #433 | — | — |
| 1894 | 36 | #464 | — | — |
| 1893 | 32 | #476 | — | — |
| 1892 | 46 | #391 | — | — |
| 1891 | 41 | #389 | — | — |
| 1890 | 39 | #406 | — | — |
| 1889 | 31 | #432 | — | — |
| 1888 | 40 | #380 | — | — |
| 1887 | 25 | #449 | — | — |
| 1886 | 37 | #352 | — | — |
| 1885 | 42 | #313 | — | — |
| 1884 | 35 | #333 | — | — |
| 1883 | 19 | #439 | — | — |
| 1882 | 31 | #319 | — | — |
| 1881 | 23 | #342 | — | — |
| 1880 | 22 | #342 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).