girls:
29 births since 1961
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
360 births since 1981
#4226 (8th percentile)
overall:
389 births since 1961
#7350 (5th percentile)
The name Edi is the #7,350 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 389 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 5.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,226 (7.8% percentile) for all time with 360 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1961.
Edi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1981 for boys). Birth data for Edi is available in 36 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 5 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 Edi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Edi were boys. Interestingly, until around 1981, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1961 to 1980), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (95.2% boys from 1981 to 2023).
For boys, Edi reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #856) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Edi reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #941) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Edi ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 70.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edi".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Eddie. View all variations of Eddie.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Edi", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eddie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eddie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Edi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Edi is pronounced as EE-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-dee, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Edi? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Edi. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Edi, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IY1 D IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker