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Edmund

OriginEnglish
Meaning"fortunate protector"
GenderBoy

About Edmund

Variation of Éamon

2 syllables.

As of September 2026, Edmund ranked #1082 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #130 in 1914, Nameberry popularity #365.

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Famous Edmunds

  • Saint Edmund the Martyr

    King of East Anglia

  • Edmund I and II

    Kings of England

  • Edmund Burke

    Irish statesman, political theorist, philosopher, author, and orator

  • Edmund Spenser

    English poet

  • Edmund Henry Garrett

    American illustrator

  • Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie

    58th U.S. Secretary of State

  • Sir Edmund Percival Hillary

    New Zealand mountaineer

  • Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl

    German philosopher

  • Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown

    American politician; 34th and 39th governor of California

  • Edmund P. Murray

    American novelist and journalist

  • Edmund Lenihan

    Irish author and storyteller

  • Saint Edmund Rich

    13th,century Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Edmund Gettier

    American philosopher

  • Edmund John James Reid

    English police detective and aeronaut

  • Edmund Anscombe

    New Zealand architect

  • Edmund Goulding

    English film director

  • Edmund Allenby

    English soldier and British Imperial Governor

  • Saint Edmund Arrowsmith

    one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

  • Saint Edmund Campion

    one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

  • Saint Edmund Gennings

    one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

  • Edmund "Ned" Foley

    son of actor Dave Foley

Edmund in pop culture

  • Edmund

    character in Shakespeare's "King Lear"

  • Edmund Pevensie

    character in "The Chronicles of Narnia"

  • Edmund Blackadder

    character on TV's "Blackadder," named after the character in King Lear

  • Edmund Bertram

    character in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"

  • Edmond Dantes

    main character in Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo"

  • Edmund Tyrone

    character in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night"

  • Edmund Reid

    character on TV's "Ripper Street"

  • Edmund Fitzgerald

    a ship that sank in the Great Lakes

  • "Wreck of the Edmund Fizgerald

    " song by Gordon Lightfoot

  • Edmund

    character in G. A. Henty's "The Dragon and the Raven"

  • Edmund 'Bunny' Corcoran

    character in Donna Tartt's "The Secret History"

  • Edmund "Ned" Chicane

    beloved character in the second campaign of the podcast "The Adventure Zone"

Variations & nicknames

  • OdönHungarian
  • EdmonRussian
  • EamonnGaelic
  • MundoPortuguese
  • EdmundoPortuguese
  • EdmondDutch
  • EdmondoItalian
  • EamonIrish
  • EdmundsLatvian
  • EumannScottish Gaelic
  • EamesIrish

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