Edd

Where Edd comes from

The dictionaries list Edd as a given name — alternative form of Ed (male name, short for Edward) — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #225 among boys — 52 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #198
    60 babies named Edd — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    Edd Roush born
    American baseball player and coach
  4. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,430.
  5. 1971
    Edd China born
    British motor specialist
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Ed (male name, short for Edward)
Namesakes
  • Edd China · British motor specialist, born 1971
  • Edd Roush · American baseball player and coach, 1893–1988
  • Edd Gould · British animator, 1988–2012
  • Edd Hillstad · Norwegian rower, born 1950
  • Edd Houck · American politician, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.