Given name
Eduarda
“a wealthy protector”
Eduarda is a feminine form of Edward. One English interpretation is “a wealthy protector.”
Original PortugueseDuda
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Portuguese use, Eduarda carries the interpretation “a wealthy protector.” Eduarda is a feminine form of Edward. One English interpretation is “a wealthy protector.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Portuguese.
How it developed
Eduarda is used as a feminine counterpart of Edward.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eduarda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 178
- 0 boys · 178 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 22 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 girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,447 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eduarda’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Eduarda has a diminutive in DUDA. Eduarda is a feminine form of Edward. In Portuguese usage, Eduarda has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Edwarda.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eduarda has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.
Portuguesewhere Eduarda comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Dudadiminutive · Portuguese
- Edwardavariant · Polish
- Edwardynavariant
- Edwardinavariant
- Eduardynavariant
- Eduardinavariant
- Edwardeavariant
- Edwardiavariant
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Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eduarda
- Eduarda AmorimBrazilian handball playerborn 1986
- Duda LisboaBrazilian beach volleyball playerborn 1998
- Eduarda BraumBrazilian beauty pageant titleholderborn 2001
- Eduarda MansillaArgentine writer (1834-1892)
- Eduarda LapaPortuguese painter (1895-1976)
- Duda BeatBrazilian singer-songwriterborn 1987
- Eduarda DionísioPortuguese writer (1946-2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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