Ed
Ed is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 54th, in 1882, 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959696 births
- Best rank
- #54first in 1882
- Since 1880
- 26,207people given the name
The story in the numbers
26,207 boys have been named Ed in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 696 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 696 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1960s alone account for 14%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ed | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,957 | |
| 1890s | 2,346 | |
| 1900s | 1,814 | |
| 1910s | 2,705 | |
| 1920s | 2,668 | |
| 1930s | 2,560 | |
| 1940s | 3,042 | |
| 1950s | 2,952 | |
| 1960s | 3,780 | |
| 1970s | 608 | |
| 1980s | 314 | |
| 1990s | 204 | |
| 2000s | 156 | |
| 2010s | 79 | |
| 2020s | 22 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Ed was the 297th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Ed
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Greenpeak 1927
- Ligepeak 1915
- Willpeak 1888
- Charleypeak 1920
- Lempeak 1917
- Gustpeak 1923
- Ikepeak 1953
- Docpeak 2021
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.