Edith

What Edith means

Means “wealth, riches + battle”

Inherited from Old English Ēadġȳþ, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) + *gunþiz (“battle”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Edith” (revision 93670868), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Edith?

US: Steady: #524 in 2015, #499 now. England & Wales: Steady: #122 in 2015, #125 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1884, when 1,104 girls got the name (#27 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,701 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 649 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 813 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (6.16 per 1,000 girls), ND (2.59 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Edith is #499 in the US and #125 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Edith were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Edythe8 US
• Edyth5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Edith

Girls

• Emerald#741From the word “emerald”^*
• Joy#419From the word “joy”^*
• Goldie#621From the word “gold”^*
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Rose#114Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1917, with 9,783 babies; 2,386 in 2025
• Ivory#378Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #378 vs #2,440 in 2025

For a brother

• Sage#455“sedge”^*
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Aspen#920Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1990, with 8 babies
• Duke#695Editor’s note Down from #601 in 2015 to #695 in 2025 in the US
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Edith’s. Rank is US 2025.