Edmond

Where Edmond comes from

The dictionaries list Edmond as a given name — a male given name from Old English, a French style variant of Edmund — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Old English
Along the way
  1. 1656
    Edmond Halley born
    English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist
  2. 1868
    Edmond Rostand born
    French poet and dramatist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #249 among boys — 44 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1883
    Peak, #208
    52 babies named Edmond — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Old English, a French style variant of Edmund.
Namesakes
  • Edmond Halley · English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist, 1656–1742
  • Edmond Rostand · French poet and dramatist, 1868–1918
  • Edmond de Goncourt · French writer and critic, 1822–1896
  • Edmond H. Fischer · American biochemist, 1920–2021
  • Edmond Debeaumarché · French Resistance member, 1906–1959

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.