Edith
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About Edith
Edith was a hugely popular name a hundred years ago that's being revived among stylish parents in Stockholm and London. It's currently beginning to gain traction in the US among those with a taste for old-fashioned names with a soft but strong image.
The name of two American First Ladies, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, as well as that of several early English queens, Edith is one of the oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon names. Widely used in nineteenth century novels, Edith was chosen by Louisa May Alcott for the heroine of her first novel The Inheritance, written when she was seventeen.
Edith Wharton makes a fine literary namesake, with other noted bearers including poet Edith Sitwell, iconic Hollywood movie designer Edith Head, and for francophiles, there is the reference to Edith Piaf.
With the rise of so many other E-starting names from Ella to Evelyn, and the adorable short form Edie, we predict that Edith will soon sound more like a cute toddler than a dated granny, especially with the Despicable Me character and the emergence of one of the most interesting characters on Downton Abbey, Lady Edith Crawley.
Pronounced EE-dith.
As of October 2026, Edith ranked #499 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #26 in 1894, Nameberry popularity #191.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #623 | 462 | 258.6 |
| 2015 | #524 | 599 | 335.6 |
| 2016 | #486 | 641 | 361.7 |
| 2017 | #476 | 655 | 379.4 |
| 2018 | #517 | 605 | 355.7 |
| 2019 | #501 | 627 | 373.6 |
| 2020 | #472 | 650 | 402.1 |
| 2021 | #493 | 638 | 388.8 |
| 2022 | #514 | 609 | 371.3 |
| 2023 | #503 | 605 | 377 |
| 2024 | #528 | 579 | 357.4 |
| 2025 | #499 | 595 | 370.2 |
World rankings
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Edith on lists
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"