Eduardo
- Pronunciation
- [E-duar-do]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Italian Form Of Edward (Rich Guardian)
- Origin
- Italian
About the Name Eduardo
Eduardo is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian form of Edward (see separate entry on Edward for the Old English Eadweard etymology meaning "wealth-guardian" or "rich protector"). The Latinate Eduardo has been used continuously across Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Catholic naming traditions for centuries.
Notable bearers include Spanish soccer player Eduardo Saverin (Brazilian-American businessman, born 1982, co-founder of Facebook); Portuguese painter Eduardo Souto de Moura; Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza; and contemporary Brazilian gymnast Eduardo Cussigh. The name has been continuously used in Spanish-speaking American communities for over a century.
Eduardo climbed into the US top 100 boys' rank by 1990 and has held a top-200 range since, driven primarily by Spanish-language naming influence. The name's appeal is its layered Latin-Anglo-Saxon pedigree combined with four flowing syllables that nickname easily. The name reads as both classical-royal (the British Edward kings) and contemporary in Spanish-American naming. Common nicknames Eddie, Eddy, Lalo (Spanish-American), Wado, and the rare Ed each carry distinct registers; international forms include Edward (English), Édouard (French), Eduard (German/Russian), Edoardo (Italian alternate), and the broader Edward family across European languages.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Eduardo
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Eduardo by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2001 with 3,418 boys named Eduardo (boy rank #112 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #410 for boys (778 US births). That's 298 places below its 2001 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 Eduardo 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 Eduardo the strongest states are Texas, California, Arizona.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | #142 | 2,562 |
| 2 | California | #171 | 2,404 |
| 3 | Arizona | #193 | 411 |
| 4 | Nevada | #216 | 149 |
| 5 | New Mexico | #260 | 85 |
| 6 | Illinois | #333 | 346 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | #345 | 113 |
| 8 | Florida | #348 | 491 |
| 9 | Nebraska | #352 | 43 |
| 10 | Idaho | #366 | 37 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio | #1,007 | 31 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | #879 | 43 |
| 3 | Missouri | #754 | 19 |
| 4 | Minnesota | #691 | 34 |
| 5 | Louisiana | #648 | 52 |
| 6 | Michigan | #643 | 83 |
| 7 | New York | #631 | 220 |
| 8 | South Carolina | #613 | 26 |
| 9 | Tennessee | #598 | 112 |
| 10 | Massachusetts | #592 | 52 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Eduardo in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
Famous People Named Eduardo
1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Eduardo.
- Eduardo Galeano is a famous Uruguayan writer, novelist and journalist.
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Compare Eduardo to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Eduardo 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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