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Edrie vs Edris

American parents have registered 1,114 Edrises since 1880, against 769 Edries. Edris is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edrie against Edris, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edrie 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 108 years in which either name was published, Edris for 75 years and Edrie for 33 years. The lead changed hands 23 times.

17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Edrie Edris
Total US births 7691,114
Most in one year 4225
Babies in 2025 under 525
Estimated living today 120590
Median age today 7820
Peak year 19081915
Best rank 574th girls1,475th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18891899
Girls / boys 769 / 0706 / 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 Edries alive today are over 78; half the Edrises are over 20. That is 58 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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