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Edwardo vs Edwyn

American parents have registered 6,764 Edwardos since 1880, against 722 Edwyns. But in 2025 it was Edwyn that was commoner, 14 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Edwardo Edwyn

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 114 years in which either name was published, Edwardo for 101 years and Edwyn for 13 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Edwardo Edwyn
Total US births 6,764722
Most in one year 15149
Babies in 2025 814
Estimated living today 5,400670
Median age today 4617
Peak year 19702006
Best rank 667th boys2,477th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th6,143rd
First recorded 19111917
Girls / boys 0 / 6,7640 / 722

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 Edwardos alive today are over 46; half the Edwyns are over 17. That is 29 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: Edwardo and Edwyn.