Given name & surname
Edo
“rich”·“guard”
Edo is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Edo is a diminutive of Edoardo. Edoardo is built from elements meaning “rich” and “guard”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Edo is a diminutive of Edoardo. Edoardo comes from Old English, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Edo is a diminutive of Edoardo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 218 as a first name in 2020; 241 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Edo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Edo is a diminutive of Edoardo. In Slovenian usage, Edo has a feminine form in Eda. In Italian usage, Edo is a shortened form of Edoardo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Edo
- Edo KayembeCongolese association football playerborn 1998
- Edo MurićSlovenian basketball player (born 1991)
- Edo de WaartDutch conductor (born 1941)
- Edo MurtićCroatian painter (1921-2005)
- Edo OphofDutch footballerborn 1959
- Edo ŠenCroatian architect (1877–1949)
- Edo BumaDutch field hockey playerborn 1946
- Edo TerglavSlovenian ice hockey playerborn 1980
- Edo ZankiGerman singer, musician and music executive (1952-2019)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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