Edmund
Edmund is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 175 births. Its best rank was 130th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1750.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19231,145 births
- Best rank
- #130in 1914
- Since 1880
- 51,883people given the name
The story in the numbers
51,883 boys have been named Edmund in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 1,145 births — 0.10% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 117 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Edmund | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 708 | |
| 1890s | 868 | |
| 1900s | 1,151 | |
| 1910s | 7,422 | |
| 1920s | 10,205 | |
| 1930s | 5,995 | |
| 1940s | 5,807 | |
| 1950s | 6,027 | |
| 1960s | 4,335 | |
| 1970s | 2,541 | |
| 1980s | 1,978 | |
| 1990s | 1,359 | |
| 2000s | 1,127 | |
| 2010s | 1,528 | |
| 2020s | 832 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Edmund was the 143rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Edmund
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Miltonpeak 1920
- Francispeak 1918
- Howardpeak 1921
- Ervinpeak 1921
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Waltonpeak 1922
- Clementpeak 1918
- Virgilpeak 1921
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.