In 2025, 94 US boys were named Eder, making it the 1,734th most common boys’ name of the year, down 45 places from #1,689 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 99 boys named Eder in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,262, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 143. For comparison, it was #1,262 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eder in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 48 babies. In all, 3,284 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 989 babies named Eder.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 935 US boys were named Eder; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eder ranked highest in California in 2025, at #967 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eider (749 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Edder, Eduar and Eyder are summarised on this page.