Edge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dweller near or below a prominent edge, ridge, steep hill or slope; first attested Henry del Egge 1221 AssWo
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɛd͡ʒ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Edge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
11,556 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)dweller near or below a prominent edge, ridge, steep hill or slope; first attested Henry del Egge 1221 AssWo
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Edge counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,556 | 1 in 29K | 12K | Edge | 386 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Edge | 207 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Edge | 121 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Edge | 119 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Edge | 29 |
| IE Ireland | #998 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Edge | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Edge | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Edge | 58 |
11,556 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Edge is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, nd& = la = ya. The edge of the knife is blunt, Mbowéi ya hango
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, Midlands, for someone who lived on or by a hillside or ridge, from OE ecg edge (cf. Eck). Patrs.: Eng.: Edmon(d)s, Edmunds; Edmon(d)son, Edmundson, Edmenson, Edminson. Welsh: Bedmond (with the patr. prefix ap\ sometimes altered to Beaumont). Sc.: Dims.: Fr.: Emonet, Emonot; Monet, Monot. McKeeman.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, The boundary line of a surface.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Selwyn Edgeb. 1868AUBritish businessman and racing driver (1868-1940)
- Walter Evans Edgeb. 1873USAmerican politician (1873-1956)
- William Edgeb. 1904GBBritish mathematician (1904-1997)
- Graeme Edgeb. 1941GBBritish musician (1941–2021)
- Exene Cervenkab. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Carey May Edgeb. 1959CAIrish long distance runner
- Simon Edgeb. 1964GBBritish novelist and journalist
- Lewis Edgeb. 1987GBEnglish footballer (born 1987)
- Stuart Edgeb. 1989USYouTube personality
- Mardi EdgeAUAustralian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,142 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Edge?
- In the etymology graph, Ecke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Edge mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller near or below a prominent edge, ridge, steep hill or slope; first attested Henry del Egge 1221 AssWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Edge?
- In English /ɛd͡ʒ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Edge have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Edge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edge.
- How common is the name Edge?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,556 people named Edge in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Edge compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Edge is the 998th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edgeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edge” — the 998th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.