Edison

Where Edison comes from

Edison hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #841 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Edison Chen born
    Hong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer
  3. 1994
    Edison Flores born
    Peruvian association football player
  4. 2018
    Peak, #538
    522 babies named Edison — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Edison Flores · Peruvian association football player, born 1994
  • Edison Chen · Hong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer, born 1980
  • Edison Denisov · Soviet and Russian composer, 1929–1996
  • Edison Miranda · Colombian boxer, born 1981
  • Edison Pettit · American astronomer, 1889–1962

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.