Edel
- Last seen for girls in 2018 at #13,793
- #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Given to boys 90.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 22 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 503since 1973
Edel over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,768 | 10 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,620 | 12 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,491 | 10 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,256 | 13 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,802 | 12 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,656 | 11 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,002 | 11 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
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| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1973
The first year at least five boys were named Edel! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Edel is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Edel in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Edel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 811 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #6,446)
- 174 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #6,446)
- 1,045 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2005 at #4,062 (22 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 10 yrs later
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 90,331
- Highest: 1 in 90,331 boys born in 2012 were named Edel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,062 in 2005, was only 1 in 90,787 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 32.6% of all boys named Edel (164) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1973
- Mostly girls until 1972, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,101 (1973) | #5,101 |
| 1980s | 43 | #4,141 (1983) | #5,947 |
| 1990s | 84 | #4,246 (1997) | #6,034 |
| 2000s | 164 | #4,062 (2005) | #5,127 |
| 2010s | 134 | #4,533 (2012) | #6,466 |
| 2020s | 73 | #5,927 (2023) | #6,786 |
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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