Originally, Eddie was a diminutive of names like Edward and Edmund. These names mean ‘rich guard’ and ‘rich protection’.
Eddie is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Eddie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Eddie ranks 637. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Eddie. In the entire USA, approximately 212,003 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Eddie. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Eddie is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Eddie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Eddie is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Eddie is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #49 Eddie easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1900.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Eddie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Eddie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Eddie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Eddie, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eddie
Eddie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Eddie sounds like this:
