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How popular is the name Edison?
Births per year, rank history and how many Edisons are alive today.
Edison (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 507th in 2025 with 76 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2019, when 150 babies were given the name, the 314th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 552 in 2024 before climbing back to the 507th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Edison you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Edisons born in England and Wales are between 5 and 12, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Edison - on average, only one in every 190 such rooms contains a Edison.
How many babies are named Edison each year?
Where does Edison rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Edison most popular?
Edison peaked in 2019, when 150 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Edison?
At least 1,600 people named Edison born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Edison?
Most living Edisons are between 5 and 12; the most common age is about 6.
Is Edison becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.