# Eden (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eden/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “steppe”, “garden” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈiːdən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 63,400 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,966 / 52,434 (83% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,915, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗḏen), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,730 | 181 |
| 2012 | 1,937 | 161 |
| 2013 | 2,044 | 158 |
| 2014 | 2,138 | 150 |
| 2015 | 2,069 | 156 |
| 2016 | 2,090 | 148 |
| 2017 | 2,096 | 139 |
| 2018 | 1,917 | 146 |
| 2019 | 1,965 | 145 |
| 2020 | 2,039 | 129 |
| 2021 | 2,319 | 121 |
| 2022 | 2,397 | 116 |
| 2023 | 2,960 | 77 |
| 2024 | 3,136 | 71 |
| 2025 | 3,362 | 70 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 262 | 828 |
| 2012 | 349 | 677 |
| 2013 | 383 | 641 |
| 2014 | 450 | 601 |
| 2015 | 573 | 505 |
| 2016 | 569 | 520 |
| 2017 | 590 | 491 |
| 2018 | 597 | 488 |
| 2019 | 635 | 468 |
| 2020 | 596 | 491 |
| 2021 | 591 | 497 |
| 2022 | 787 | 409 |
| 2023 | 709 | 440 |
| 2024 | 663 | 466 |
| 2025 | 551 | 544 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 362 | 150 |
| 2012 | 376 | 150 |
| 2013 | 392 | 136 |
| 2014 | 407 | 135 |
| 2015 | 432 | 131 |
| 2016 | 493 | 117 |
| 2017 | 476 | 113 |
| 2018 | 465 | 115 |
| 2019 | 468 | 111 |
| 2020 | 514 | 98 |
| 2021 | 585 | 91 |
| 2022 | 547 | 87 |
| 2023 | 536 | 87 |
| 2024 | 714 | 60 |
| 2025 | 594 | 80 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 92 | 425 |
| 2012 | 112 | 375 |
| 2013 | 122 | 338 |
| 2014 | 141 | 321 |
| 2015 | 153 | 302 |
| 2016 | 141 | 335 |
| 2017 | 190 | 274 |
| 2018 | 260 | 208 |
| 2019 | 247 | 206 |
| 2020 | 220 | 223 |
| 2021 | 227 | 225 |
| 2022 | 217 | 226 |
| 2023 | 206 | 233 |
| 2024 | 173 | 270 |
| 2025 | 180 | 255 |

## People named Eden

- Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer (born 1991)
- Eden Sher, American actress (born 1991)
- Eden Riegel, American actress
- Eden Phillpotts, English author, poet and dramatist (1862–1960)
- Eden Espinosa, American actress and singer
- Eden Silva, British tennis player
- Eden Atwood, American actor and singer
- Eden Brent, American musician
- Eden Kane, British pop singer
- Eden Massouema, Congolese and French association football player
- CupcakKe, Chicago rapper

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.