Eddie
- Pronunciation
- [E-ddie]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Abbreviation Of Names Beginning With Ed- Like Edward And Edmond.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Eddie
Eddie began as a nickname and abbreviation for given names built on the Old English element ead, meaning "wealth" or "fortune" — most notably Edward and Edmund, both long-established names in the English tradition. Over time Eddie earned standing as an independent given name in its own right, prized for its warmth and approachability. It retains the affectionate quality of a name that feels like it belongs to a person rather than a title, carrying the easy familiarity that made it popular across many decades of American naming.
Among its notable bearers is Eddie Murphy (born 1961), the American actor, comedian, and producer whose four-decade career has included a three-season tenure on NBC's Saturday Night Live (1980–1984) alongside a body of American comedy films that made him one of the most recognizable performers of his generation. His high-profile presence has kept the name vivid for successive generations of American audiences.
Eddie first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 1882 and reached its peak rank of #59 in 1910, reflecting its particular strength in the early twentieth century when informal nicknames were widely registered as birth names. Remarkably, Eddie has remained in the top-1000 ever since, right through to 2024, when it sat at #941 with 243 births — one of the longer continuous presences in the SSA record. The sole recorded variant is Eddy, the alternate spelling that follows the same phonetic blueprint.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Eddie
US Popularity History (1882–2025)
Annual US births named Eddie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1947 with 4,457 boys named Eddie (boy rank #80 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #861 for boys (280 US births). That's 781 places below its 1947 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Eddie Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Eddie the strongest states are Mississippi, California, Nevada.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #431 | 29 |
| 2 | California | #474 | 651 |
| 3 | Nevada | #485 | 28 |
| 4 | Iowa | #562 | 16 |
| 5 | Louisiana | #611 | 46 |
| 6 | Alabama | #640 | 40 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | #645 | 18 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | #653 | 41 |
| 9 | Georgia | #659 | 114 |
| 10 | Massachusetts | #686 | 17 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #891 | 54 |
| 2 | Indiana | #847 | 45 |
| 3 | Missouri | #846 | 27 |
| 4 | Ohio | #819 | 92 |
| 5 | Illinois | #790 | 90 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | #786 | 40 |
| 7 | Florida | #782 | 145 |
| 8 | Michigan | #781 | 54 |
| 9 | New Jersey | #780 | 39 |
| 10 | Colorado | #762 | 17 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Eddie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eddy | Abbreviation Of Names Beginning With Ed- Like Edward And Edmond. | Male | English |
Famous People Named Eddie
1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Eddie.
- Eddie Murphy — Movie Actor (1961)
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Compare Eddie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Eddie against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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