girls:
45.9k births since 1943
#616 (89th percentile)
boys:
9.7k births since 1917
#1186 (74th percentile)
overall:
55.6k births since 1917
#1007 (87th percentile)
The name Eden is the #1,007 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,620 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #616 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 45,874 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #1,186 (74.1% percentile) for all time with 9,746 births since 1917.
Eden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1943 for girls). Birth data for Eden is available in 85 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (80 years for boys and 77 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 Eden has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 80.6% of babies named Eden were girls. Interestingly, until around 1947, the name was more popular for boys (73.8% boys from 1917 to 1946), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (82.6% girls from 1947 to 2023).
For girls, Eden reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #75) with 1,672 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,672 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eden is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #75 (92.2% percentile) with 1,672 births per million.
For boys, Eden reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 59.3% percentile (ranked #377) with 419 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 419 births per million (ranked 59.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eden ranks #402 for boys (55.9% percentile) with 386 births per million, which is 92.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Eden is pronounced as EE-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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