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Edita

Girls' name

Wealth, riches + battle, through Edith

Edita has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2000, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Edita, 2008

1 in 655,000

Edita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edita: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + battle, through Edith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edita means

Edita belongs to the name family reached through Edita → Edith. Its meaning is “wealth, riches + battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edita is used in Czech, Lithuanian, Slovak and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edith.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Edita is pronounced [ˈɛɟɪta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 77 girls were recorded with the name Edita between 1981 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2000; its best national rank was #9,357 in 2000.

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 Edita?

Edita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edita 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 2008 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 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Editas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edita was born before 2002 — so the typical Edita is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
64.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
77
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Edita 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (10)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,357
2000

Spellings of Edita

Edita is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 16.5% against Edita's <0.01%.

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.

Edita around the world

Where Edita 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1972–2015
    #5,823
    in 2015
  • Norway
    1880–1992
    #456
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Edita 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
#9,357
2000
Peak year
2000
10 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Edita

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

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Sibling names for Edita

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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