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The EDDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,230 1710 0.007 71
United States (1880 census) 7,500 804 0.015 150
Change since 1880 +11730 -906 -0.008 -79
Other Countries
Australia 1,347 1222 0.008 82
United Kingdom 1,743 3303 0.004 38
Top States for EDDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,593 2016 0.005 47
New York 1,430 1271 0.008 75
Ohio 1,308 1013 0.012 115
Florida 1,127 1835 0.007 71
Michigan 935 1143 0.009 94
Top States for EDDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 838 295 0.046 463
Vermont 188 500 0.031 309
Maine 181 1373 0.014 142
Alaska 87 895 0.014 139
Washington 725 986 0.012 123

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EDDY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EDDY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EDDY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EDDY by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EDDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EDDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EDDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EDDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 554 2.88
White (Hispanic) 312 1.62
Mixed Race 231 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 202 1.05
Asian/Pacific 79 0.41
White (Caucasian) 17,853 92.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EDDY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of EDDY in historical publications

In the Gaelic, Eddee signifies an instructor. The name may be local from the Saxon Ed, backwards, and ea, water--a current of water running back, a whirlpool. Edd, Welsh, signifies motion, going; Eddu, to go, to move.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to EDDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDDY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EDDY

The following words are slight variants of EDDY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.