Eddie (given name)

Eddie
Pronunciation	/ˈɛdi/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	English
Meaning	Wealth defender
Other names
Alternative spelling	Eddy
Related names	Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edwin, Edsel, Eduardo, Edmundo, Ed

Last updated August 20, 2025

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo, Edmundo or Ed. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:

Sports

Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
Eddie Alvarez (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
Eddie Cheever (born 1958), American race car driver
Eddy Curry (born 1982), American professional basketball player
Eddy Edigin (born 1995), German professional basketball player
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (born 1963), British ski jumper
Eddie Elder (born 1989), American football player
Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
Eddie Genborg (born 2007), Swedish ice hockey player
Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
Eddie Guardado (born 1970), American baseball closer
Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
Eddie Gutierrez (soccer) (born 1983), American soccer player
Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
Eddie Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish Formula One driver
Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
Eddie Jones (basketball) (born 1971), American basketball player
Eddie Jones (rugby union) (born 1960), Australian rugby coach and former player
Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
Eddy W M Lai (born 1973), horse racing jockey
Eddie Melai (1941–2004), Australian rules footballer
Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
Eddie Miles (born 1968), American football player
Eddie Murray (born 1956), American baseball player
Eddie O'Sullivan (born 1958), head coach of Irish rugby team
Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
Eddie Price (1925–1979), Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
Eddie Salcedo (born 2001), Italian footballer
Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player

Music

Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
Eddie Cochran (1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
Eddie Fisher (singer) (1928–2010), American singer
Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyana-born British reggae musician
Eddie Harsch (1957–2016), Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
Eddie McGuire (born 1964), Australian television presenter and businessman
Eddy Mitchell (born 1942), French rock singer and actor
Eddie Money (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
Eddie Morton (1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
Eddie Peregrina (1945–1977), Filipino singer and matinee idol
Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
Eddie Vedder (born 1964), American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
Eddy Zervigon (born 1942), Cuban flautist and bandleader
Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

Eddie Cahill (born 1978), American actor
Eddie Cibrian (born 1973), Cuban-American actor
Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
Eddie Gutierrez (actor) (born 1942), Filipino actor and former matinee idol
Eddie Izzard (born 1962), English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
Eddie Mercado (1938–2006), Filipino film actor, television actor, film director, television director, and television presenter
Eddie Mesa (born 1940), Filipino retired actor and singer
Eddie Murphy (born 1961), African-American actor, comedian and singer.
Eddie Paskey (1939–2021), American actor
Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), English actor
Eddie Rodriguez (1932–2001), Filipino film actor and director
Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
Eddie Spears, (born 1982), Indigenous-American actor

Politics

Eddy Baldewijns (born 1945), Belgian politician
Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
Eddie Hughes (British politician) (born 1968)
Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator

Other professions

Eddie Bauer (1899–1986), American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
Eddie Fitte (born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
Eddie Gossage (born 1958), American businessman, race promoter
Eddie Linden (1935–2023), Scottish-Irish poet and magazine editor
Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), American serial killer
Eddie Price III (born 1953), Louisiana elected official
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973), American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
Eddie Villanueva (born 1946), Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician

Fictional characters

Eddy Stone, a main character in the 1961 British drama film Victim , played by Donald Churchill
Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf in the 1975 musical Rocky Horror Picture Show
Eddie, a character in 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
Eddie, a character in the movie 2009 American comedy film The Hangover
Eddie, one of the police officers in the American sitcom The Simpsons
Eddie, a dog in the American sitcom Frasier
Eddie, the shipboard computer on the starship Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Eddie, one of the main characters in the Ice Age film franchise
Eddie, the antagonist of the racing video game Need for Speed: Underground , also appears in Need for Speed (2015 video game)
Eddy (Tony Sampson in the entire Ed, Edd n Eddy franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) is the self-appointed leader of the Eds
Eddy, a character played by Nico Jouvel in the British web series Corner Shop Show
Eddie Brock, anti-hero also known as Venom
Eddie Carr, field researcher from The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), from The Dark Tower
Eddy Gordo, in the video game series Tekken
Eddie Haskell, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show Bottom , played by Adrian Edmondson
Eddie Kaspbrak, from Stephen King's It
Eddie Lindstrom, a character in a 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom Friends
Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film Limitless
Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of Stranger Things
Eddie Redcliffe, one of the main characters in the Australian series Deadloch
Eddie Russett, the protagonist in the novel Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde.
Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera Coronation Street
Eddie Winslow, from Family Matters