Girl or boy · Hebrew
Eden
Say it: EE-dun
Meaning
From the biblical Garden of Eden. Hebrew eden is often glossed 'delight', but many scholars connect the place name with Akkadian edinu 'plain'.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Used for both sexes, it has been mainly a girls' name in the US since the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 45,849 babies given this name since 1917
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 793 girls
- 2,608 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Hebrew | Eden |
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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