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The EDIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,639 16208 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 549 8948 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1090 -7260 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 68 19938 0 4
United Kingdom 163 18540 0 4
Top States for EDIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 242 6516 0.002 21
Michigan 141 10205 0.001 14
California 129 20725 0.000 4
Missouri 119 6912 0.002 21
Florida 105 18381 0.001 7
Top States for EDIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 67 7782 0.002 23
Ohio 242 6516 0.002 21
Missouri 119 6912 0.002 21
Kansas 47 8004 0.002 17
Nebraska 25 11983 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of EDIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EDIE 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 EDIE 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 EDIE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 125 7.63
White (Hispanic) 30 1.83
Mixed Race 27 1.65
White (Caucasian) 1,448 88.35
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of EDIE in historical publications

EDIE. The Scottish family of Edie appear, from armorial evidence, to be a branch of the Adamsons, and Nisbet seems to consider the names identical. See Eady.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EDIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDIE.

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 EDIE

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