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Edith

OriginEnglish
Meaning"prosperous in war"
GenderGirl

About Edith

Variation of Edie

2 syllables.

As of September 2026, Edith ranked #499 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #26 in 1894, Nameberry popularity #182.

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Famous Ediths

  • Edith of Wessex

    Queen consort of Edward the Confessor of England

  • Edith of Mercia aka Ealdgyth

    Queen consort of Harold Godwinson of England

  • Edith of England aka Eadgyth

    Queen consort of Otto I of Germany

  • Edith Piaf (born Edith Giovanna Gassion)

    French singer

  • Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

    U.S. First Lady

  • Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

    U.S. First Lady

  • Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick

    American actress & heiress

  • Edith "Edie" Falco

    American actress

  • Edith Louisa Sitwell

    English poet

  • Edith Blackwell Holden

    English author and illustrator

  • Edith Head

    American costume designer

  • Edith

    birth name of Queen Matilda of Scotland

  • Edith Mary Evans

    English actress

  • Edith Pechey

    one of the first British woman physicians

  • Edith Irene Södergran

    Swedish,Finnish poet

  • Edith Mary Pargeter

    English historical novelist

  • Edith Hirsch Luchins

    Polish,American mathematician

  • Saint Edith Stein aka Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

    German,Jewish,born nun and Holocaust victim

  • Edith the Fair aka Edith Swan

    Neck, wife of King Harold Godwinson of England

  • Edith L. Cavell

    WWII nurse killed for aiding Allied soldiers

  • Edith Frank Holländer

    mother of Jewish diarist Anne Frank

  • Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier

    American socialite

  • Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale

    American socialite

  • Edith Eleanor Bowman

    Scottish radio DJ

  • Edith Vivian Patricia Upton (b. 2015)

    daughter of actress Cate Blanchett

Edith in pop culture

  • Edith Cushing

    from the Guillermo del Toro movie "Crimson Peak"

  • Edith Bunker

    Archie's wife on TV's "All in the Family"

  • Edith Crawley

    character on TV's "Downton Abbey"

  • Edith Finch

    character in the game "What Remains of Edith Finch"

  • Edith

    little girl in animated movie "Despicable Me"

  • Edith Moor

    character in John Galsworthy's Forsyte saga

  • Edith Ann

    character in Lily Tomlin's sketches

  • Edith Shaw Lennox

    from Gaskell's "North & South"

  • Edith Stanley

    from musical "The Pirates of Penzance"

  • Edith Prior

    character in the Divergent trilogy

  • Edith "Edie" Burchill

    from Morton's "The Distant Hours"

  • Edith Vernon

    from G. A. Henty's "St. George for England"

  • Edith Pilchester

    from H.E. Bates' "Darling Buds of May"

  • Edith and the Kingpin

    a song by Joni Mitchell (1975)

  • Miss Edith

    Drusilla's doll in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Variations & nicknames

  • EdithaGerman
  • EkikaHawaiian
  • EddaPolish
  • EditaCzech
  • EdkaPolish
  • EdytaPolish
  • EdiHawaiian
  • EdettaItalian
  • ItaPolish
  • EdittaItalian
  • DitkaCzech
  • EdaPolish
  • DitaCzech

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