Ed
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
26,205
peak year 1959
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 696 births
- Best rank
- #54
- in 1882
- First recorded
- 1880
- #55 that year
- Last recorded
- 2024
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1931
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1959696#297Peak
- 1960644#308
- 1958632#299
- 1961603#320
- 1962574#327
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #54 in 1882 · peak births 696 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
26,205 boys · 165 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ed has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.