Last Name EDDS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The son of Ede or Edde, pet form Eddy or Eady. Although this female first name is now obsolete, it has made a most remarkable impresson on English directories. It lingered into the 17th century as a first name. Every imaginable variant of this last name is found. No doubt the name was occasionally a nickname of Edward or Edmund, but the above derivation must be looked upon as absolutely decisive in the case of great majority.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 27,646 (2000 US census) 22,309 (1990 US census)
Count 820 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.51%, or 775 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.66%, or 30 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.85%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.85%, or 7 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

 How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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