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The name Ed is a diminutive form of Edward or Edwin. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ed has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ed**
Use of the Name Ed for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
25,109	6,299	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ed has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ed last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1972, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ed**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	55	310
1881	61	272
1882	54	337
1883	64	247
1884	60	314
1885	54	328
1886	63	303
1887	62	275
1888	68	301
1889	71	270
1890	70	262
1891	70	237
1892	66	306
1893	80	225
1894	81	241
1895	84	229
1896	81	246
1897	90	198
1898	89	228
1899	101	174
1900	87	297
1901	103	162
1902	109	175
1903	117	168
1904	114	184
1905	112	189
1906	138	149
1907	133	178
1908	157	152
1909	157	158
1910	140	228
1911	191	163
1912	228	229
1913	246	239
1914	255	286
1915	274	321
1916	317	273
1917	304	305
1918	304	333
1919	303	327
1920	331	309
1921	357	284
1922	343	296
1923	365	265
1924	364	272
1925	376	251
1926	341	287
1927	374	246
1928	369	249
1929	408	205
1930	373	232
1931	363	238
1932	342	259
1933	326	268
1934	336	262
1935	352	243
1936	340	257
1937	332	266
1938	341	265
1939	344	266
1940	362	251
1941	352	272
1942	357	284
1943	344	318
1944	341	307
1945	339	312
1946	319	404
1947	356	365
1948	403	284
1949	433	242
1950	533	162
1951	625	126
1952	601	137
1953	616	139
1954	568	168
1955	531	190
1956	464	263
1957	367	437
1958	300	628
1959	297	696
1960	310	640
1961	319	605
1962	327	574
1963	344	504
1964	377	440
1965	442	305
1966	501	229
1967	560	178
1968	582	169
1969	675	135
1970	727	128
1971	792	103
1972	922	75
Totals:		25,109		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ed as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ed appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 93 times during the last 125 years.

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