Eddy

Eddy is the 1,876th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,785 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,900.

By the numbers

People: 18,785
Rank: 1,876th
How common: 1 in 15,900
Per 100,000: 6.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Eddy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)American founder of Christian Science
Duane Eddy (1938–2024)American guitarist
Nelson Eddy (1901–1967)American actor and singer
Sonya Eddy (1967–2022)American actress
Helen Jerome Eddy (1897–1990)American actress

People named Eddy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Eddy

Also a first name

Eddy has been given to 14,431 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.