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The first name 
Eden

Eden is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.

Eden – known and loved in the US!

The name Eden 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 girls names, Eden ranks 138. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 13 were named Eden. In the entire USA, approximately 48,008 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Eden. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Eden

What does the name 
Eden mean?

Eden is a name, whose exact meaning and word origin is disputed. However, it is obvious that there is a connection to the biblical name for paradise in the Abrahamic religions. So, it is possible, that Eden means ‘delight’.

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Eden -
a name for the future?

This is a real surprise! Eden is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2022, it reached its best rank at #72 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Eden much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Eden was observed for the first time ever in 1917, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2022, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 3,155 times. Whether this beautiful girls' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Eden was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Eden -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Eden may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Eden is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,154 women in Utah is called Eden. In total, that’s 1,012 women who feel addressed when the name Eden is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #305 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Eden as the answer a total of 40,603 times. This places Eden at #587 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Eden as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Eden has 4 letters 
and begins with an E

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 girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With four letters, the name Eden is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.

Other names with 
E, d, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Eden – E, d, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Dene or Deen.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Eden

If your name is Eden 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...

This is how you spell the name Eden

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Eden, you can simply say:

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This is how the name Eden is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Eden in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Eden

Eden

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Eden

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Eden is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
D
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Eden

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.

E
D
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Eden sounds like this: