Edith is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Edith isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Edith ranks 500. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Edith. In the entire USA, approximately 215,293 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Edith. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Edith derived from the Old English name Eadgyð, meaning ‘spoils of war’. It consists of the words ‘ead’ for ‘wealth, fortune’ and ‘guð’ for ‘battle’. It was a very popular name in the U.S. in the 19th century and was even given to boys in rare cases.
What does 'spoils of war' mean? Spoils of war' refers to the goods, property, or resources that a victorious army or group acquires after winning a military conflict or battle. Historically, the spoils of war were often considered a legitimate reward for the victors.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Edith is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Edith for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Edith is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Edith is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #26 Edith has never been more popular than back in 1881.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Edith was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 603 babies were named Edith in the USA in 2022, ranking it #475 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2009, when it was only ranked #793 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 333 girls were named Edith.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Edith is one of them. However, Edith is not equally widespread in all states, but people in West Virginia seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,131 women called Edith who live here are 0,348% of all female residents and push their name up to #65, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in West Virginia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Edith is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Edith and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Edith, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Edith sounds like this:
