Is Eden a male or female name?
Eden is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 82% and male usage in France at 71%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 63%
- Sample size
- 126,632
- Confidence
- high
Eden by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 82% | 59,372 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 71% | 41,635 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | female | 76% | 16,607 | ons |
| Canada CA | female | 77% | 6,058 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 54% | 1,199 | bfs |
| Spain ES | male | 53% | 742 | ine |
| Ireland IE | female | 71% | 453 | cso |
| Poland PL | female | 70% | 257 | pesel |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 211 | ssb |
| Austria AT | male | 58% | 98 | statat |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IL · NO · NZ · PL · SE · US
Eden over time
In the United States, 79.7% of the babies named Eden in the 1950s were girls, against 79.3% in the 2020s. In France, 69.6% of the babies named Eden in the 1980s were girls, against 12.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 80% | 182 | — | |
| 1960s | 81% | 556 | — | |
| 1970s | 85% | 796 | — | |
| 1980s | 86% | 1,582 | 70% | 115 |
| 1990s | 89% | 3,916 | 85% | 940 |
| 2000s | 88% | 11,799 | 75% | 4,315 |
| 2010s | 81% | 24,302 | 30% | 20,165 |
| 2020s | 79% | 16,131 | 12% | 16,095 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Eden with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Eden&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Eden
Is Eden a male or female name?
Eden is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 82% and male usage in France at 71%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Eden change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Eden identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.