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Edmond vs Edmonia

American parents have registered 24,900 Edmonds since 1880, against 899 Edmonias. Edmond is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edmond against Edmonia, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edmond Edmonia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Edmond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1898, when Edmond had 42 and Edmonia had 14.

Side by side

  Edmond Edmonia
Total US births 24,900899
Most in one year 43329
Babies in 2025 75under 5
Estimated living today 11,000110
Median age today 5680
Peak year 19201922
Best rank 263rd boys1,536th girls
Rank in 2025 2,006thunranked
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 7 / 24,893899 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Edmonias alive today are over 80; half the Edmonds are over 56. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Edmond and Edmonia.