Eddie

Where Eddie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Eddie.

  • Vowel-ended
Eddie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #104 among boys, with 129 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #59
    595 babies named Eddie, its best rank.
  3. 1964
    Eddie Vedder born
    American singer and guitarist
  4. 1965
    Eddie Irvine born
    British racecar driver
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #861.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Eddie Vedder · American singer and guitarist, born 1964
  • Eddie Irvine · British racecar driver, born 1965
  • Eddie Cantor · American comedian and actor, 1892–1964
  • Eddie Deezen · American actor, born 1958
  • Eddie Nketiah · English association football player, born 1999

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.