Eden

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• A user from Washington, United States says the name Eden is of Hebrew origin and means "Paradise, garden".
• A user from United Kingdom says the name Eden means "A paradise".
• According to a user from New Zealand, the name Eden means "A beautiful place".
• A user from Australia says the name Eden means "Paradise".
• A user from New York, United States says the name Eden is of Hebrew origin and means "Paradise".

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

noun E"den

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Etymology: Heb. ēden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden

Other Dictionary Sources

1. A beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
   Synonyms: garden of eden
2. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
   Synonyms: heaven, nirvana, paradise, promised land, and shangri-la

Wiktionary

From Hebrew עֵדֶן (eden), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).

1. (biblical) A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.
2. Any of various towns and other place names.
3. An English surname​, probably derived from a place name.
4. A female given name from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).
5. (by extension, countable) A paradise on Earth.
6. (by extension, uncountable) A state of innocence.

Eden was also found in the following language(s): Finnish

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  #84	Modern Girl Names

  #136	Unisex Names

• How Popular is the name Eden? Eden is the 1,192^nd most popular name of all time. As a last name Eden was the 4,736^th most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Eden have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 38,113 babies born with the first name Eden in the United States. That's more than enough people named Eden to occupy the territory of Sint Maarten (the Netherlands) with an estimated population of 37,429 (as of January 1, 2010).
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Eden? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1917 when it was given as a first name to 7 new born babies.
• When was Eden first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Eden is Tuesday, October 4th, 1870.
• What year had the most people named Eden born? The highest recorded use of the first name Eden was in 2014 with a total of 2,130 babies. That's a lot of babies named Eden!
• Random Eden Factoid: According to the 2013 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Eden ranks 86^th in popularity as a baby girl's name in Tennessee. Imagine that, 74 babies in Tennessee have the same name as you in 2013.
• Weird things about the name Eden: Your name in reverse order is Nede. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Ndee. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Eden? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 7,489 people with the last name Eden.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Eden? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 3 of them will have Eden as their last name.

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