Editha

Girls' name

Latinate form of Edith

Editha has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1920, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Editha, 1971

1 in 490,000

Editha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Editha: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Edith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Editha means

Editha is a latinate form of Edith.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Editha is used in German and English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Editha is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 321 girls were recorded with the name Editha between 1889 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,176 in 1889.

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.

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How common is Editha?

Editha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971: 1 in 490,000; 7 of 3,432,187 births
Among girls only: 1 in 238,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1971: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 339,860 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Editha 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 1971 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 339,860 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Editha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Editha was born before 1919 — so the typical Editha is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 10.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Editha 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (14)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,176; 1889

Spellings of Editha

Editha is not the most common spelling — Edith is, with 86.9% against Editha's 0.10%.

Edith86.9%270,880
Elisha4.6%14,366
Edythe4.5%13,880
Eartha0.94%2,920
Edyth0.73%2,283
Etha0.58%1,802
Keitha0.46%1,449
Evita0.40%1,247

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 Editha is used

Across 1910–2025, Editha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 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. Editha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Editha 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,176; 1889
Peak year: 1920; 14 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 1971
All-time count: 321
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Editha

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

Edina Aastha Edithe Edison Edilia Amrutha Yuktha Anvitha Nishtha Swetha Artha Cyntha Iretha Leotha Eletha Myrtha Dartha Edin Weltha Wretha Renatha Iantha Mirtha Mertha

Sibling names for Editha

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

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Syble Adella Mittie

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Orin Otha Hilton Casimir Noble

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