Edythe is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Edythe in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Edythe in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Edythe by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Edythe ranks at #9,127. That means there are 9,126 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Edythe.
Edythe 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 2008, where the name Edythe was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Edythe and were born in the USA in 2008 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, Edythe even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1915, it ranked on position 250 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Edythe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Edythe 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 6 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #11,784 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 6 girls named Edythe, 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 'Edythe'.
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 Edythe 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 Edythe 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 Edythe, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Edythe
Edythe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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D
Y
T
H
E
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.
E
D
Y
T
H
E
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. Edythe sounds like this:
