Eider
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- AY-der
- US rank, 2025
- #1,064 for boys
Eider is a boys' name, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 1,064th for boys in the US (204 babies).
What does Eider mean?
Basque name, from eder, 'beautiful'
“beautiful”
In the Basque Country Eider is usually a girl's name, but in the Americas it is often given to boys.
Is Eider a girl's or a boy's name?
Eider is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 204 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Eider in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,064among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 204about 1 in 8,400 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 890% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 204 boys in the US were named Eider, making it the 1,064th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,495th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 217 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Eider in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 227 boys in the US were given Eider or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #920, up from #1,064 for this spelling alone.
- Eider 204
- Eyder 23
Eider in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 204 | #1,064 |
| 2024 | 217 | #1,026 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,258 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,378 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,917 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,495 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
Names like Eider
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassian Kyaire Finnegan Callan Raiden Sevyn Brewer Decker Deacon Ronan Kayden Rayden
Other spellings of Eider
Names related to Eider
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Eider: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/eider, updated 20 October 2026.