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Edythe

#11,196 in 2025Girls' name

Wealth, riches + battle, through Edith

Edythe has been given to 13,880 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,196 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 582 recorded.

Babies named Edythe, 2025

1 in 414,000

Edythe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edythe: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + battle, through Edith

Old English

What Edythe means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Edythe is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,880 girls were recorded with the name Edythe between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 582 in 1918; its best national rank was #256 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,895 in 2020 to #11,196 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,392 in 2015 to #11,196 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Edythe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,196
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Edythe 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edythe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edythes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edythe was born before 1920 — so the typical Edythe is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
29.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,304
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (4,055).

Is Edythe 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
+1,324
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,699
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,196
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.4%
Peak was 1918 (582)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#256
1915

Spellings of Edythe

Edythe is not the most common spelling — Edith is, with 92.4% against Edythe's 4.7%.

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 Edythe is used

Across 1910–2025, Edythe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 18,347 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,143
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 7,692
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 12,500
  6. 6Iowa1 in 12,500
  7. 7North Dakota1 in 12,500
  8. 8Illinois1 in 14,286

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

Edythe around the world

Where Edythe 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
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Edythe

People whose public names include Edythe, 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.

Edythe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,196
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,699
Best rank ever
#256
1915
Peak year
1918
582 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,880
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Edythe

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

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Names with a curve like Edythe

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

MadgeIoneIolaZelmaHesterErnaLeotaLessieBernieceElmaHortenseMaurine

Sibling names for Edythe

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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