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Edit

Girls' name

Form of Edith

Edit has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Edit, 2009

1 in 637,000

Edit over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Edith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edit means

Edit is a form of Edith.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Edit is used in Hungarian and Swedish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛ.dit/ for Edit.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Edit → Edith. The family’s meaning is “wealth, riches + battle”, recorded in English with the source elements audaz and gunþiz.

Origin, language, and formation

Edit is used in Faroese, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edith.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Edit is pronounced [ˈɛdit].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 179 girls were recorded with the name Edit between 1975 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1996; its best national rank was #5,861 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Edit?

Edit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edit was born before 1995 — so the typical Edit is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
179
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Edit rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (16)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,861
1996

Spellings of Edit

Edit is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 30.0% against Edit's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Edit is used

Across 1910–2025, Edit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 470,964 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Edit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edit around the world

Where Edit ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–1979
    #546
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1959–1959
    #625
    in 1959

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Edit by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,861
1996
Peak year
1996
16 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
179
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Edit

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EdinEdinaEdiaEdisEditaEdisonEdiliaEditheEdidEdithaEdieYehuditEdiYuditJuditYoditEdisaEdilEdianyEdiethEdiceEdicaEdikaEdisha

Sibling names for Edit

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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