Edie

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Edie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 114 births. Its best rank was 698th, in 1963.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1140.01% of girls
Peak year: 1963211 births
Best rank: #698in 1963
Since 1888: 5,579people given the name

Babies named Edie, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

5,579 girls have been named Edie in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 211 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Edie
1880s	5
1890s	12
1900s	21
1910s	40
1920s	37
1930s	69
1940s	204
1950s	519
1960s	1,353
1970s	593
1980s	208
1990s	235
2000s	577
2010s	1,096
2020s	610

In 1963, its biggest year

Edie was the 698th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.

Names that rose and fell with Edie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Hedy2,309 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.