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Edric vs Edris

American parents have registered 1,732 Edrics since 1880, against 1,114 Edrises. Edric is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edric against Edris, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edric Edris

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

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Edric for 67 years and Edris for 56 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Edric Edris
Total US births 1,7321,114
Most in one year 13725
Babies in 2025 3625
Estimated living today 1,700590
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20181915
Best rank 1,324th boys1,475th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240thunranked
First recorded 19141899
Girls / boys 0 / 1,732706 / 408

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 Edrises alive today are over 20; half the Edrics are over 15. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Edric Edris
England and Wales 9085
France 35130

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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