Edwards is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Wales, England. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Edwards
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Ireland, Wales, England
Meaning:

The son of Edward meaning "rich, guradian".

The lastname Edwards is a form of Edward. The personal name, which had given rise as surnames to Edwards, Ethards, Edwardson, Tedd, and perhaps to Edes, Edkins, etc.

This name is so common that more than two hundred and fifty London traders bear it. In the Registrar-General's List it occupies the twentieth place for frequency, there being for four Smiths or Joneses about one Edwards, or 25 percent. Many families of Edwards and Edwardes are of Welsh Cumberland, from which the Wyndhams patrician origin. For example, Edwards of Nanhoron descends from one of the royal tribes of Wales through Sir Griffith Lloyd and Sir Howell y Fwyallt; Edwards of Ness Strange descends from Einion Effel, lord of Cynllaeth, county of Montgomery, 1182; Edwards of Old-Court, county of Wicklow, claims from Roderick the Great, king of all Wales in 843, through his younger son, Tudwall Gloff or "the lame," whose descendants settled in Ireland in the XVII century. It may seem remarkable that such a thoroughly Saxon name should occur so frequently in Welsh families of ancient blood, but it must be remembered that settled surnames do not appear among the Welsh till within the last two or three centuries, long after the prejudices against appellation our early Edwards had passed away.

How popular is Edwards?

Edwards is common in United States, England, Australia, Wales, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Scotland, Guyana, Northern Ireland, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, France, Ireland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Grenada, Spain, Nigeria, Chile, Germany, Tonga, Bahamas, Zimbabwe, Netherlands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Brazil, Japan, Belize, United States Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia, Fiji, Sweden, India, Argentina, Liberia, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Philippines, Nicaragua, Morocco, Bahrain, Switzerland, Suriname, Vanuatu, Paraguay, Denmark, Portugal, Cayman Islands, Venezuela, Kenya, Malta, Belgium, Bermuda, Isle of Man, Luxembourg, Jersey, Peru, Malaysia, Greece, Swaziland.

Edwards is ranked 730 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Edwards bearers increased by 4.84 per cent in 2010 US census to 332423 since 2000, the surname slipped by 5 spots and ranked at 58. The last name was found in around 1 per thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 62.13 65.16
Black 31.63 30.21
Hispanic or Latino 2.5 1.63
Others 2.47 1.84
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.77 0.75
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.5 0.4
Edwards is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Antigua and Barbuda is ahead in terms of density. Around 734240 people have been found who wears Edwards as their family name. Edwards is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundred thousands of Edwards:
49 United States425,246
24 England128,848
Countries with ten thousands of Edwards:
27 Australia49,795
11 Wales28,165
110 Canada26,457
15 Jamaica20,359
Countries with thousands of Edwards:
726 South Africa9,444
18 New Zealand6,160
18 Trinidad and Tobago5,843
232 Scotland3,984
24 Guyana2,823
253 Northern Ireland1,504
38 Barbados1,388
9 Antigua and Barbuda1,292
6,832 France1,278
658 Ireland1,234
11 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1,198
7,345 Thailand1,189
4,317 Saudi Arabia1,034
Countries with hundreds of Edwards:
486 Panama971
15 Grenada915
5,000 Spain867
12,496 Nigeria843
1,464 Chile702
15,446 Germany636
30 Tonga596
145 Bahamas531
4,907 Zimbabwe486
6,157 Netherlands462
34 Dominica454
1,485 Dominican Republic454
531 Costa Rica425
20,258 Brazil396
12,492 Japan339
251 Belize331
29 United States Virgin Islands328
104 Saint Lucia310
561 Fiji283
3,064 Sweden258
91,479 India249
14,625 Argentina245
2,032 Liberia219
9,762 Mexico214
64 Saint Kitts and Nevis200
59,367 Philippines199
1,191 Nicaragua181
34,956 Morocco170
1,494 Bahrain162
6,727 Switzerland161
642 Suriname160
485 Vanuatu157
1,373 Paraguay156
4,149 Denmark142
3,778 Portugal142
75 Cayman Islands141
5,691 Venezuela139
20,325 Kenya137
245 Malta132
14,233 Belgium125
77 Bermuda124
93 Isle of Man123
669 Luxembourg122
85 Jersey120
10,980 Peru112
15,672 Malaysia104
18,087 Greece103
583 Swaziland101
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
7,765 Norway95
128 Guernsey81
1,891 Hong Kong80
62,244 Italy80
1,075 China72
30,029 Uganda72
125,931 Russia71
13,711 Israel68
59 Gibraltar67
8,378 Ecuador66
26 Anguilla57
4,402 Guatemala56
11,431 Ghana55
1,852 Cyprus54
28,987 Czechia53
300 Aruba51
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
415 Guam49
305 Sierra Leone49
119 British Virgin Islands47
5,531 Mauritius46
176,839 Indonesia41
10,323 Botswana39
343 Marshall Islands39
13,630 Iraq31
32,444 Austria30
20,323 United Arab Emirates30
2,705 Honduras29
14,967 Kuwait29
152 Turks and Caicos Islands26
28,704 Hungary23
19,707 Finland22
501 South Korea22
11,611 Singapore21
3,633 Oman19
49,497 Tanzania18
264 Cook Islands16
15,005 Afghanistan15
143 Monaco15
112,031 Poland14
18,914 Uruguay13
19,471 Estonia12
81 Montserrat12
9,165 Sri Lanka12
48,128 Egypt11
122,870 Turkey11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
6,837 Cuba10
2,599 Iceland10
19,532 Malawi9
30,726 Qatar9
1,431 American Samoa8
114 Saint Martin8
40,820 Croatia7
109,517 Papua New Guinea7
194 Saint Pierre and Miquelon7
2,948 Vietnam7
33,397 Zambia7
20,863 Azerbaijan6
107,736 Kazakhstan6
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Servant David Edwards from Great Britain aboard the Chusan from Liverpool during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 58 years old when he arrived in USA on May 30, 1846. Ellen Edwards (60), Ann Edwards, aged 13, Mary Edwards (33) Workwoman, James Edwards (2), 1 year old Catherine Edwards, 29 years old Thomas Edwards, 27 years old Jasper Edwards, 23 years old Mary Edwards, Susan Edwards, aged Born at sea, and 306 other Edwards around 35.85% of whom were workman while others worked as merchant and miner, farmer, mechanic, spinster, clerk, tailoress, turner, shoemaker, butcher, baker, grocer, milliner migrated to US.

From Germany

Charles Edwards hailed from Germany. 25 years old embarked for New York from London on Independence and arrived on October 6, 1852. Jane Edwards (21), 40 years old Rose Edwards, Bertha Edwards, aged 6, Elisabeth Edwards (24) Farmer, James Edwards, aged 7, James Edwards (43) Solicitor, 41 years old Rebecca-E. Edwards, Farmer William Edwards, 11 years old Ann Edwards, and 26 other Edwards majority of whom were farmer and others worked as solicitor and laborer, merchant migrated to US from London, Bremen & Southampton and Liverpool.

Edwards Namesakes

  • Hilton Edwards, English-born Irish actor
  • Betty Edwards, American art teacher and author, best
  • Sydenham Edwards, 'Nicotiana persica' Lindl
  • Monica Edwards, English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best
  • Benjamin W. Edwards, American colonist in early Texas
  • Elwood Edwards, American voice over actor
  • John D. Edwards, officer
  • Sally Edwards, best-selling author, entrepreneur
  • Martin Edwards, chairman of Manchester United from 1980 until 2002
  • Joan C. Edwards, New Orleans jazz singer and well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist
  • Haden Edwards, Texas settler and land speculator
  • Lewis Edwards, Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister
  • David Eugene Edwards, American musician
  • J. Hugh Edwards, British Liberal Party politician
  • Jorge Edwards, Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat
  • William Cameron Edwards, Canadian businessman and parliamentarian
  • Thomas Charles Edwards, Welsh minister, writer and academic
  • Bela Bates Edwards, American man of letters
  • Owen Morgan Edwards, Welsh historian, educationalist and writer
  • John Menlove Edwards, was born at Ainsdale, near Liverpool, England
  • Heywood L. Edwards, officer of the United States Navy
  • J. B. Edwards, American playwright
  • Webley Edwards, World War II news correspondent and Hawaiian radio personality
  • I. E. S. Edwards, English Egyptologist considered to be a leading expert on the pyramids
  • Weldon Nathaniel Edwards, Congressional Representative from North Carolina;
  • Harry Stillwell Edwards, American journalist, novelist, and poet
  • Henry Sutherland Edwards, British journalist
  • Griffith Edwards, British psychiatrist
  • Justin D. Edwards, Canadian and British Professor
  • Sara Edwards, co-presenter of BBC Wales' early-evening news programme
  • Daniel Edwards, American contemporary artist whose pieces address celebrity and popular culture
  • Aton Edwards, expert in the fields of emergency preparedness
  • John H. Edwards, British medical geneticist
  • John Stark Edwards, attorney, public official
  • Corsley Edwards, American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League
  • William John Edwards, leading exponent and teacher of the Welsh singing medium of Cerdd Dant
  • Aled Edwards, director and CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and holds the Banbury Chair of Medical Research at the University of Toronto
  • Tracy Edwards, British sailor
  • Darnell Edwards, former Canadian football free safety
  • Gerald Basil Edwards, British author
  • Albert Gallatin Edwards, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and founder of brokerage firm A. G. Edwards
  • Helen Edwards, British civil servant
  • Jennifer Edwards, American actress best
  • Stoker Edwards, British Labour Party politician
  • Ruth Dudley Edwards, Irish writer
  • Iwan Edwards, celebrated Canadian choral conductor
  • Nate Edwards, former IBM hardware architect, retired in 1997
  • Iestyn Edwards, stage and TV writer/performer
  • Lucretia Edwards, environmental activist and preservationist
  • A. W. F. Edwards, FRS to distinguish him from his brother
  • Blake Edwards, American filmmaker

Edwards Namesakes

  • Hilton Edwards, English-born Irish actor
  • Betty Edwards, American art teacher and author, best
  • Sydenham Edwards, 'Nicotiana persica' Lindl
  • Monica Edwards, English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best
  • Benjamin W. Edwards, American colonist in early Texas
  • Elwood Edwards, American voice over actor
  • John D. Edwards, officer
  • Sally Edwards, best-selling author, entrepreneur
  • Martin Edwards, chairman of Manchester United from 1980 until 2002
  • Joan C. Edwards, New Orleans jazz singer and well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist
  • Haden Edwards, Texas settler and land speculator
  • Lewis Edwards, Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister
  • David Eugene Edwards, American musician
  • J. Hugh Edwards, British Liberal Party politician
  • Jorge Edwards, Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat
  • William Cameron Edwards, Canadian businessman and parliamentarian
  • Thomas Charles Edwards, Welsh minister, writer and academic
  • Bela Bates Edwards, American man of letters
  • Owen Morgan Edwards, Welsh historian, educationalist and writer
  • John Menlove Edwards, was born at Ainsdale, near Liverpool, England
  • Heywood L. Edwards, officer of the United States Navy
  • J. B. Edwards, American playwright
  • Webley Edwards, World War II news correspondent and Hawaiian radio personality
  • I. E. S. Edwards, English Egyptologist considered to be a leading expert on the pyramids
  • Weldon Nathaniel Edwards, Congressional Representative from North Carolina;
  • Harry Stillwell Edwards, American journalist, novelist, and poet
  • Henry Sutherland Edwards, British journalist
  • Griffith Edwards, British psychiatrist
  • Justin D. Edwards, Canadian and British Professor
  • Sara Edwards, co-presenter of BBC Wales' early-evening news programme
  • Daniel Edwards, American contemporary artist whose pieces address celebrity and popular culture
  • Aton Edwards, expert in the fields of emergency preparedness
  • John H. Edwards, British medical geneticist
  • John Stark Edwards, attorney, public official
  • Corsley Edwards, American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League
  • William John Edwards, leading exponent and teacher of the Welsh singing medium of Cerdd Dant
  • Aled Edwards, director and CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and holds the Banbury Chair of Medical Research at the University of Toronto
  • Tracy Edwards, British sailor
  • Darnell Edwards, former Canadian football free safety
  • Gerald Basil Edwards, British author
  • Albert Gallatin Edwards, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and founder of brokerage firm A. G. Edwards
  • Helen Edwards, British civil servant
  • Jennifer Edwards, American actress best
  • Stoker Edwards, British Labour Party politician
  • Ruth Dudley Edwards, Irish writer
  • Iwan Edwards, celebrated Canadian choral conductor
  • Nate Edwards, former IBM hardware architect, retired in 1997
  • Iestyn Edwards, stage and TV writer/performer
  • Lucretia Edwards, environmental activist and preservationist
  • A. W. F. Edwards, FRS to distinguish him from his brother
  • Blake Edwards, American filmmaker

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