girls:
5.5k births since 1888
#2262 (60th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1880
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1880
#3656 (53rd percentile)
The name Edie is the #3,656 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,545 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,262 (60.4% percentile) for all time with 5,465 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1880.
Edie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1888 for girls). Birth data for Edie is available in 115 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 13 years for boys). 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 Edie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1888, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1880 to 1887), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.6% girls from 1888 to 2023).
For girls, Edie reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 26.2% percentile (ranked #570) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 106 births per million (ranked 26.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Edie ranks #827 for girls (12.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 67.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Edie reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #452) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Edie", 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 Edie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Edie is pronounced as EE-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-dee, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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