Edward

[17caterpillars1mouse]

I really like Edward but is it really popular? I like the full name and also nn Ted on a child. Ed is also growing on me thanks to Ed Sheeran but I can't stand Eddie.

Is Eddie inevitable?

Would a Ted get most in a sea of Ted and teddy's from both children called Edward and Theodore, plus full name Teddy I guess.

Just to add that my eldest is called Matthew and when I was expecting him I hated the diminutive, Mattie, with a passion. When he was born he was Mattie straight away and is still mainly called that 21 years later. There were lots of Matthew's the year he was born and it also meant he didn't have to be known as Matthew (last initial) all through school.

Lots of traditional names / nicknames don't really make sense

Jack for John
Harry for Henry
Peggy for Margaret
Betty for Elizabeth
Kate for Catherine

Presumably they came about because there were lots of, say, Johns in the family and once "big John", "small John" type names had been exhausted people had to think of other monikers in order to tell people apart

I don't like Edward but for me the obvious nickname is Ed. I have a Teddy and that's his real name. I call him both Teddy and Ted and err Teduardo and he always calls himself Teddy

I've got an Edward and he's Eddie or Ed. Or interestingly sometimes Eduardo!

My dgs is Edward and is usually Ed or Ted. When he was very small (he is 9 now) we called him Teddy Edward.
I don’t like Ned it means idiot in the North and also can be a bit donkeyish.
I love Edward though.

I think that the Ted / Ned nicknames came about because they rhyme with Ed.

Like how Bob is a nickname for Robert. Rhymes with Rob.

Ned is from 'mine Ed', as Nan is from 'mine Ann' and Nelly is from 'Mine Ellie'.

Edward is a lovely name...if we have another boy I’d go for Edward with nn of Ted or Teddy.

We've got a three year old Edward so I'm biased - I thunk it's a lovely classic name.

He usually goes by the full name, Edward, and otherwise gets called by a family nickname which has nothing to do with Edward at all.

Agree with previous posters that when they're toddlers/preschoolers they will be known by whichever version of the name the family chooses - I imagine he might get called Ed or Eddie when he goes to school though. I know one other his age, whose parents call him Eddie, and most of the adult ones I know are called Ed.

I experimented with Teddy when he was a baby but it really didn't suit him - and Teddy seems more around here than Edward anyway.

In terms of popularity, it's quite high up in the charts (top 30 I think?), but not at "one or more in every class" levels.