Eddy
Meaning
variant of Edward, wealthy guardian
Eddy's name family
One shared root links 6 names across 2 languages.
Shared root: Old English Eadweard "wealth-guard", one of the few Anglo-Saxon names to survive the Conquest in royal favor
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Eddy peaked in the 1940s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
718 people · the #10,413 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 250,000 · median age 34
Among people named Eddy living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1980s as in the 1990s, more than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Eddy deep dive
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