Edith
Edith is a girl's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 30th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 499th. About 66,000 Ediths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Edith boys named Edith
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 271,705
- Estimated living today
- 66,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 30th
- Rank in 2025
- 499th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 270,880 / 825
How old the living Ediths are
born that year still alive today
Of the 271,705 babies given the name since 1880, about 66,000 are alive — 24 in every hundred. Roughly 9,300 of them are children and 35,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) + *gunþiz (“battle”). Name of a 10th century English saint.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ediths
- Édith Piaf (1915–1963)French singer
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937)American writer and designer
- Edith Stein (1891–1942)Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher
- Édith Cresson (born 1934)Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
- Edith Cavell (1865–1915)British nurse
- Edith Evans (1888–1976)British actress
- Edith Södergran (1892–1923)Finland Swedish poet and writer
- Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948)First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
People named Edith with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Edith is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Edith is most concentrated in West Virginia (2.5×), Kentucky (2.0×), Virginia (1.8×), North Carolina (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Edith peaked:
Edith elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Edith +1 spelling | 57,245 | 72nd |
| England and Wales girls | Edith | 8,177 | 83rd |
| Sweden girls | Edith | 4,104 | 36th |
| Norway girls | Edith | 1,198 | 93rd |
| Scotland girls | Edith | 406 | 152nd |
| Ireland girls | Edith | 374 | 185th |
| Belgium girls | Edith | 330 | 547th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Edith | 128 | 138th |
| Switzerland girls | Edith | 71 | 767th |
| France boys | Edith | 40 | 1,610th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Edith: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Edith | 37 | 0.003% | 868th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Edith | 32 | 0.007% | 337th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Edith | 2 | 0.003% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Edith: rank by region
In 2025, Edith was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Edith | 584 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Edith | 452 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Edith appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (186th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Edith by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 16 | 367th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Edith among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Edith | 5,437 | 7,446 |
| Finland girls | Edith +1 spelling | 1,323 | 3,633 |
| the Netherlands boys | Edith | — | 87 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Edith lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,712 women called Edith were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Edith | 401 | 0.132 | 597 |
| Tarragona | Edith | 50 | 0.114 | 751 |
| Girona | Edith | 45 | 0.109 | 756 |
| Palmas, Las | Edith | 63 | 0.107 | 945 |
| Gipuzkoa | Edith | 40 | 0.107 | 748 |
| Guadalajara | Edith | 15 | 0.107 | 694 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Edith against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.