Edwina is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Edwina has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Edwina. That means that a girl named Edwina is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Edwina.
Edwina is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2020, where the name Edwina was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Edwina and were born in the USA in 2020 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Edwina even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1943, it ranked on position 361 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Edwina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Edwina has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 10 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #8,408 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 10 girls named Edwina, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Edwina'.
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 six letters, the name Edwina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Edwina 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 Edwina, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Windmill
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Edwina
Edwina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
A
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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D
W
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A
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. Edwina sounds like this:
