Meaning not yet researched.
Edan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,038 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,038 in 2009; #3,262 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Edan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,262 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,038.
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Edan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,038 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 68 (2009).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Edan, making it the 3,262nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 140 places from #3,122 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 39 boys named Edan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,038, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #2,464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Edan, making it the 13,664th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #6,972, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16. For comparison, it was #12,153 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Edan in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 1,713 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 554 babies named Edan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 419 US boys were named Edan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eden (63,400 babies since 1880), Eiden (2,129 babies since 1880), Edin (1,385 babies since 1880) and Edyn (1,355 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Edan 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 | 6 | #13,664 | 36 | #3,262 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,122 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,833 | 53 | #2,519 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,055 | 37 | #3,232 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,318 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,773 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,820 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,008 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,500 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,301 | 41 | #2,900 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,153 | 51 | #2,464 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,248 | 50 | #2,496 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,319 | 66 | #2,049 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,539 | 56 | #2,303 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,495 | 49 | #2,516 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,885 | 51 | #2,441 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,904 | 68 | #2,038 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,872 | 57 | #2,301 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,073 | 56 | #2,313 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,817 | 58 | #2,210 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,402 | 57 | #2,140 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,930 | 36 | #2,859 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,972 | 40 | #2,559 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,594 | 25 | #3,482 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,318 | 30 | #3,009 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,027 | 28 | #3,103 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,102 | 25 | #3,204 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,892 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,397 | 25 | #3,013 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,447 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,881 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,254 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,707 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,740 | 15 | #3,978 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,149 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,087 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,793 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,339 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,671 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,498 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,312 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,298 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,679 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,185 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,928 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,093 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,263 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,288 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,858 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,989 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,447 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,205 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,729 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,556 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,605 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,826 |
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).