Meaning not yet researched.
Eider: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 204 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,027 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,027 in 2024; #1,064 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eider in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,064 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,027.
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Eider: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 204 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,027 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 217 (2024).
In 2025, 204 US boys were named Eider, making it the 1,064th most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #1,027 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 217 boys named Eider in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,027, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 217. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eider in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2016 with 7 babies. In all, 749 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 706 babies named Eider.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 742 US boys were named Eider; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,373 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eider ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #552 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Heide (2,103 babies since 1880) and Eder (3,284 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 Eider in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 13 | #552 | — |
| Tennessee | 12 | #605 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #618 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #719 | — |
| New York | 20 | #724 | — |
| California | 29 | #833 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #886 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #915 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #959 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #981 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,029 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,132 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,136 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,143 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,327 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).