Edith

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English word ฤ“ad, meaning wealth or prosperity, in combination with the Old English gศณรฐ, meaning strife, and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is ร‰dith.

From Wikipedia

Edith first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 63 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1962 with 245 babies (rank #81 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Edith

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Edith yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

5,079
Total babies (all years)
63
Years in the data
245
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952100#148
1953126#127
1954129#126
1955142#114
1956170#99
1957133#136
1958182#97
1959157#118
1960190#97
1961236#85
1962245#81
1963233#91
1964221#97
1965187#107
1966210#95
1967216#90
1968229#90
1969245#92
1970243#93
1971190#110
1972211#90
1973164#107
1974130#132
197578#190
197682#185
197764#223
197846#284
197927#381
198042#301
198136#349
198224#422
198326#406
198427#405
198520#517
198631#394
198727#427
198814#638
198911#739
19908#885
199117#630
199215#643
199312#731
199410#794
19958#884
199614#655
19979#837
199814#663
199919#550
200011#769
20015#1,075
200212#727
20039#804
20048#839
200510#737
20069#761
20077#863
20087#847
20098#777
20104#1,031
20115#913
20124#965
20135#850
20145#818