Edmond

Where Edmond comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Edmond.

  • Old English
Edmond through the years
  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, with 44 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1883
    Peak, #208
    52 babies named Edmond, its best rank.
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.