Edan
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
- Given to boys 89.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,533since 1968
Edan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | — | #3,104 | 39 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | — | #3,297 | 35 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,808 | 44 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,994 | 39 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,493 | 51 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #2,457 | 51 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #2,492 | 50 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #2,291 | 57 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #2,205 | 58 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,843 | 36 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #2,545 | 40 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #2,988 | 30 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,661 | 17 | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #3,920 | 15 |
| 1991 | — | #3,105 | 20 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five boys were named Edan! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Edan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- New York#1,760 · 1 in 16,885
- California#1,829 · 1 in 21,934
- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #999 in California, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 136 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #3,240)
- 481 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,240)
- 783 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
41 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2009 at #2,035 (68 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,660
- Highest: 1 in 28,660 boys born in 2013 were named Edan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,035 in 2009, was only 1 in 29,170 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 32.5% of all boys named Edan (498) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,673 |
| 1970s | 59 | #3,521 (1970) | #4,490 |
| 1980s | 78 | #3,858 (1981) | #4,937 |
| 1990s | 193 | #2,981 (1997) | #3,517 |
| 2000s | 455 | #2,035 (2009) | #2,587 |
| 2010s | 498 | #2,044 (2013) | #2,540 |
| 2020s | 244 | #2,510 (2023) | #3,021 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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