Entry № 2740 · Hebrew origin

Eden Eden — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-den /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Delight, paradise"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "delight, paradise".

Eden comes from the Hebrew ʿEden (עֵדֶן), meaning "delight" or "pleasure." In Genesis, the Garden of Eden is the paradise where God placed the first humans before the Fall.

Eden has been used as a girl's name in Israel for decades. In the U.S. it entered the top 1000 in the early 2000s and now sits in the top 150 — a rare biblical name that remains fresh and modern.

Delight, paradise — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

עֵדֶן
Transliteration
ʿEden
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.dən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eden stands.

Eden does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Edens before her.

Real people
Eden Hazard
Belgian footballer.
born 1991
In fiction
Eden
Character in the TV series Vampire Diaries.
The CW

Names connected to Eden.

The number behind Eden.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eden reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.