girls:
705 births since 1895
#5011 (12th percentile)
overall:
705 births since 1895
#7034 (9th percentile)
The name Edda is the #7,034 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 705 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,011 (12.3% percentile) for all time with 705 births since 1895.
Edda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for girls in 1895). Birth data for Edda is available in 77 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Edda reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #576) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Edda ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 28.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Edda is pronounced as EH-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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