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Eduardo

boy name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
3
Peak era
2000s/2010s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

“Spanish form of Edward, built from Old English ead, meaning wealth or fortune, and weard, meaning guard; a steady Spain classic”

Goes by Duda, Dudu, Edu, Lalo. See all nicknames

The story

Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Edward, built from Old English elements for wealth or fortune and guard. The journey is wonderfully indirect: a medieval English royal name crossed languages until Eduardo became fully at home from Madrid to Montevideo and Manila. In Latin American letters, Eduardo Galeano gave it an especially resonant voice. The Uruguayan writer moved among journalism, history, memory, football, exile, and political critique, refusing to keep storytelling inside one category. His work offers a vivid doorway into the name. Eduardo can sound formal on a book cover or official document, then become Edu, Duda, or Dudu in Portuguese and Lalo in Spanish-speaking families. Linguists classify Dudu as left-edge reduplication from Eduardo; Edu comes from a separate shortening process. Its literal guardian root remains appealing, but the larger story is linguistic adoption: an Anglo-Saxon inheritance reshaped by Spanish and Portuguese mouths until it became a Latin American classic with its own writers, leaders, artists, and private family histories.

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Eduardo across languages

One shared root links 7 names across 3 languages.

Shared root: Old English Eadweard, built from ead, meaning wealth or fortune, and weard, meaning guard; one of the few Anglo-Saxon names to survive the Conquest in royal favor

The constellation

EduardoSpanish · PortugueseEdwardEnglish

More branches

EdEnglish · short formEddieEnglish · diminutiveEddyEnglish · variantNedEnglish · diminutiveEduardaPortuguese · feminine form

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Eduardo in song

Eduardo e Mônica
Legião Urbana (1986)
The other half of Brazil's favorite love story, a teenager who somehow ends up with the older student who shares none of his interests.

How popular is Eduardo around the world?

In the United States, 5,525 babies were named Eduardo between 2020 and 2025. In Mexico City, there were 434 registrations of Eduardo in 2022.

Eduardo is on the official records of the United States, Mexico City, Brazil, Spain, Chile, Puerto Rico, Montevideo, Argentina, Ireland, Canada, Austria, England and Wales and France.

Eduardo crosses languages: it is in the latest top 300 of a Spanish-speaking record and of Brazil’s 2022 census, which counts people of every age. The full list: Spanish and Portuguese

United States

1 in 3,900

In the United States, 5,525 babies were named Eduardo between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 2000s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Eduardo peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. Eduardo went to 1,448 US babies in 2015 and 778 in 2025, 54% of the earlier figure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Mexico City City

1 in 270

In Mexico City, there were 434 registrations of Eduardo in 2022.

peak 20002022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (20 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Brazil

1 in 310

At the 2022 census, 658,697 people in Brazil were named Eduardo, the 23rd most common name, with a median age of 26.
Among people named Eduardo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.

1930speak 2000s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 21,575 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Spain

1 in 440

In Spain, 101,317 residents are named Eduardo, the 46th most common name among men, with a mean age of 48.5 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Chile

1 in 1,000

In Chile, 177 boys were registered as Eduardo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 19642021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Puerto Rico

1 in 1,600

In Puerto Rico, 11 babies were named Eduardo in 2025, and 1,547 have carried the name since 1998.

peak 20002025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Montevideo City

1 in 1,600 · 2011

In Montevideo, 15 boys named Eduardo were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

peak 19552011

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Argentina

1 in 1,900

In Argentina, 357 newborns were given the name Eduardo in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Ireland

1 in 14,000

In Ireland, 4 boys named Eduardo were born in 2025, the 676th most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.

Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names

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Canada

1 in 33,000

In Canada, 11 boys named Eduardo were born in 2024, ranked 1,817th among boys that year.

1991peak 20062024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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Austria

1 in 38,000

In Austria, 2 boys named Eduardo were born in 2025, ranked 1,241st among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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England and Wales

1 in 49,000

In England and Wales, 12 boys named Eduardo were born in 2025, ranked 2,014th among boys that year.

1996peak 20142025

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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France

1 in 64,000

In France, about 10 boys named Eduardo were born in 2025, ranked 2,876th among boys that year.

1920peak 19722025

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Poland

last on record 2022

Eduardo is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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Scotland

last on record 2013

Eduardo is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names

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South Australia

last on record 2016

Eduardo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Not on the record in New Zealand: that registry withholds small counts, so rare uses may sit below its floor.

Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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Where Eduardo travels

Portuguese · Portuguese form of Edward, built from Old English ead, meaning wealth or fortune, and weard, meaning guard

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