Edwina
About Edwina
Edwina may still be taking tea in the parlor, but we can see her joining friends like Matilda and Josephine for a comeback, especially if pronounced like Edwin rather than Edween.
She had a very non-vintage-mauve image in the Coen brothers' cult favorite, Raising Arizona, in which Holly Hunter played a police officer named Edwina who was usually called Ed.
Edwina was on the Social Security list every year through 1969, reaching a high of 378 in 1943.
Pronounced ed-WEE-nuh.
As of October 2026, Edwina ranked #11199 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #379 in 1943.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
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 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Edwina on lists
Famous Edwinas
- Edwina Booth (born Josephine Constance Woodruff)
American actress
- Edwina Currie
English politician and novelist
- Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten
Countess Mountbatten of Burma, English heiress
- Edwina Victoria Louise Brudenell
English heiress and model, granddaughter of Edwina Mountbatten
- (Frances) Edwina Dumm
American cartoonist
- Edwina Sandys
English sculptor
- Edwina Brown
American basketball player
- Edwina "Eddie" Bartholomew
Australian journalist and TV presenter
- Edwina Hayes
English singer,songwriter
Edwina in pop culture
- Edwina Dunn
character on British soap "EastEnders"
- Edwina Spoonapple
main character in children's musical "Dear Edwina" by Zina Goldrich
- Edwina Crane
character in Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" (1966,75)
- Edwina Lewis
character on American soap "One Life to Live"
- Edwina "Eddie" Ferguson
nurse in an episode of "MASH"
- Edwina
pseudodragon in the tabletop game "Dungeons & Dragons"
- Edwina
chicken in the claymation film Chicken Run
- Edwina
character from both versions of the film "The Beguiled"
- Edwina Sharma
character on Netflix's "Bridgerton"