Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese variant of Edward, an English name meaning ‘rich guard’. It consists of the words ‘ead’ for ‘wealth, fortune’ and ‘weard’ for ‘guard’.
Eduardo is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Eduardo 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, Eduardo ranks 267. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Eduardo. In the entire USA, approximately 105,119 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Eduardo. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
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 seven letters, the name Eduardo has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Eduardo 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 Eduardo, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Unicorn
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eduardo
Eduardo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
D
U
A
R
D
O
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
U
A
R
D
O
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. Eduardo sounds like this:
