Edwina

Feminine variation of Edwin

"wealthy friend"

Updated Mon Apr 22 2024

Edwina Origin and Meaning

The name Edwina is a girl's name meaning "wealthy friend".

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.

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Famous People Named Edwina

Edwina Booth (born Josephine Constance Woodruff)American actress
Edwina CurrieEnglish politician and novelist
Edwina Cynthia Annette MountbattenCountess Mountbatten of Burma, English heiress
Edwina Victoria Louise BrudenellEnglish heiress and model, granddaughter of Edwina Mountbatten
(Frances) Edwina DummAmerican cartoonist
Edwina SandysEnglish sculptor
Edwina BrownAmerican basketball player
Edwina "Eddie" BartholomewAustralian journalist and TV presenter
Edwina HayesEnglish singer,songwriter

Edwina in Pop Culture

Edwina Dunncharacter on British soap "EastEnders"
Edwina Spoonapplemain character in children's musical "Dear Edwina" by Zina Goldrich
Edwina Cranecharacter in Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" (1966,75)
Edwina Lewischaracter on American soap "One Life to Live"
Edwina "Eddie" Fergusonnurse in an episode of "MASH"
Edwinapseudodragon in the tabletop game "Dungeons & Dragons"
Edwinachicken in the claymation film Chicken Run
Edwinacharacter from both versions of the film "The Beguiled"