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Edyth

#15,545 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Edyth has been given to 2,283 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #15,545 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Edyth, 2025

1 in 663,000

Edyth over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edyth: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edyth means

Edyth is a given name.

The naming story behind Edyth

Wikidata records Edyth as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q109161207, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,283 girls were recorded with the name Edyth between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1918; its best national rank was #586 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,748 in 2020 to #15,545 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,391 in 2015 to #15,545 in 2025.

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.

How common is Edyth?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,545
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edyth 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edyth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edyths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edyth was born before 1922 — so the typical Edyth is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
357
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (540).

Is Edyth 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
−5,797
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,154
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 1918 (76)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#586
1894

Spellings of Edyth

Edyth is not the most common spelling — Edith is, with 92.8% against Edyth's 0.78%.

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 Edyth is used

Across 1910–2025, Edyth was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 374,378 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Kentucky1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Edyth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edyth around the world

Where Edyth 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
    2014–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Edyth

People whose public names include Edyth, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Edyth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,545
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,797
Best rank ever
#586
1894
Peak year
1918
76 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,283
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Edyth

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

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Names with a curve like Edyth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Edyth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Edyth

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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