girls:
379 births since 1926
#5337 (7th percentile)
boys:
13.8k births since 1884
#991 (78th percentile)
overall:
14.2k births since 1884
#2199 (72nd percentile)
The name Eddy is the #2,199 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,195 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 71.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #991 (78.4% percentile) for all time with 13,816 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,337 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 379 births since 1926.
Eddy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1926 for girls). Birth data for Eddy is available in 125 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 56 years for girls). 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.
The name Eddy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.4% of babies named Eddy were boys.
For boys, Eddy reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 32.6% percentile (ranked #431) with 115 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 122 births per million (ranked 31.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eddy ranks #807 for boys (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 48.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eddy reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #650) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eddy ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 58.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eddy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Eddy is pronounced as EH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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