boy's name
Eduardo
eh-DWAR-doh
- Origin Spanish
- Gender Boy
- Syllables 3
- Letters 7
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 112,804
the United States
#411
2025 births
Eduardo means wealthy guardian, and it is one of very few Old English names that spread across the Catholic world — carried by Edward the Confessor's cult rather than by English settlement. It holds 112,254 lifetime births in our records.
- Eduardo is a name of Spanish origin.
- Peaked in 2001, when 3,435 babies were given the name.
- It has been falling over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 4,261 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1890.
- 3 syllables, with the stress on syllable 2.
Eduardo over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1890s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1890s | 43 |
| 1900s | 67 |
| 1910s | 304 |
| 1920s | 825 |
| 1930s | 803 |
| 1940s | 978 |
| 1950s | 2,243 |
| 1960s | 4,975 |
| 1970s | 8,749 |
| 1980s | 11,547 |
| 1990s | 27,376 |
| 2000s | 31,500 |
| 2010s | 15,755 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 5,525 |
What Eduardo means
Eduardo means wealthy guardian, or guardian of riches. The Old English joins a word for wealth to one meaning a guard, so both halves concern protecting property.
Where Eduardo comes from
Eduardo is the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Edward, from the Old English Eadweard — ead, wealth or prosperity, joined to weard, a guardian. The same ead begins Edgar, Edwin and Edith. Edward the Confessor was canonised in 1161 and became a saint of the universal Church rather than merely an English one, which is how a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon compound reached Spanish and Portuguese naming without any Anglo-Saxon speakers being involved.
Eduardo in use
Eduardo peaked in the United States in 2001, when 3,435 babies were registered, and is falling in our data. It now ranks 411th in the United States on 778 births, 795th in Ireland on 4, 2104th in England and Wales on 12 and 3011th in France, across 112,804 lifetime births in five of the seven markets we track. Our records carry it from 1890.
How popular is Eduardo?
In 2025, Eduardo was given to 778 babies in the United States, ranking #411 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Eduardo is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Eduardo
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Eduardo also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Eduardo over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
2 nicknames for Eduardo
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Eduardo in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
- Belarusian
- Eduard
- Catalan
- Eduard
- Danish
- Edvard
- Estonian
- Eduard
- German
- Eduard
- Italian
- Edoardo
- Norwegian
- Edvard
- Polish
- Edward
- Portuguese
- Duarte
- Romanian
- Eduard
- Russian
- Eduard
- Slovene
- Edvard
- Swedish
- Edvard
- Welsh
- Iorwerth
- Other forms
- Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
- Ed
Sibling names for Eduardo
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Eduardo — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Eduardo
What does the name Eduardo mean?
Wealthy guardian — the Old English ead, wealth, joined to weard, a guard.
How did an English name reach Spanish?
Through the cult of Edward the Confessor, canonised in 1161 as a saint of the universal Church.
Is Eduardo related to Edgar?
In its first element — ead, wealth, begins both.
How popular is Eduardo?
411th in the United States, down from a 2001 peak of 3,418 births.
Is Eduardo a girl's or a boy's name?
Eduardo is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.
How many syllables are in Eduardo?
Eduardo has 3 syllables.
What are the nicknames for Eduardo?
Eduardo is usually shortened to Lalo and Eddie.
Is Eduardo a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Eduardo currently ranks #411 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.