Edoardo

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.

• Italian:/e.doˈar.do/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Edoardo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Italian63%

  a male given name, equivalent to English Edward

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Germanico Edwart/Edward; da ad/adal/adel 'nobile' oppure had 'guerra' e wari/wurd 'custodia, difesa, guardia'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  do nome anglo-saxão Eadward; fixado no italiano na forma figlio de Ser Edoardo

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• English10.0%

  long., people, Nigeria

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  Biblical name

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  Edom [Idumea]

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish7.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Edoardo in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Edoardo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Croatia, Poland

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian

  Also written Eduardo, 'Eduardo, Едуардо, Едоардо, Edúardó

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written ̇edoardo

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Edoardo Mangiarottib. 1919ITItalian fencer (1919–2012)
• Edoardo Leob. 1972ITItalian actor and screenwriter (born 1972)
• Edoardo Pontib. 1973ITItalian director

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Edoardo mean, and where does it come from?

a male given name, equivalent to English Edward Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Edoardo?

In the etymology graph, Edward, Eduardo and Eddie are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Edoardo?

In Italian /e.doˈar.do/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people named Edoardo?

Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Edoardo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edoardo. After it come Switzerland, United States, Spain and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.

Is Edoardo a male or female name?

Edoardo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Italy (ISTAT, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.

How common is the name Edoardo?

In the United States, the national register counted 521 people named Edoardo in 2020, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.