Édith
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/edit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Édith is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Edith in the 19th century.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.6K
- SESweden1 in 982
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #915 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 498 (measured from records)
- 1 in 982 (inferred from the name graph)
92,920 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Edith in US United States, SE Sweden, DK Denmark.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From English Edith in the 19th century.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Édith counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #382 | 92,920 | 1 in 3.6K | 93K | Edith | 498 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,909 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | — | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10,392 | 1 in 982 | 10K | Edith | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,394 | 1 in 29K | 8K | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | #358 | 3,714 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.7K | Edith | 80 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,531 | 1 in 1.6K | 5.8K | — | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,104 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.1K | — | — |
92,920 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edith of Wiltonb. 961GBEnglish nun
- Édith Jéhanneb. 1899FRFrench actress
- Edith Kerb. 1910FRactress (1910–1997)
- Édith Piafb. 1915FRFrench singer (1915–1963)
- Jacqueline Joubertb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameactor and Continuity announcer (1921–2005)
- Anne Vernonb. 1924FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Édith Cressonb. 1934FRPrime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
- Édith Scobb. 1937FRFrench actress (1937-2019)
- Édith de la Héronnièreb. 1946FRFrench writer
- Édith Bongob. 1964CGFirst Lady of Gabon (1964-2009)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,136 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,927 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #37,944 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Édith mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Edith in the 19th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- What are other forms of the name Édith?
- In the etymology graph, Edit, Edita and Edite are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Édith?
- A machine transcription gives /edit/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Édith a male or female name?
- Édith is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Édith have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 93 thousand people named Édith, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edith.
- Where is Édith most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Édith is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 982 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Édith?
- In the United States, the national register counted 92,920 people named Édith in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Édith compared with other names?
- In the United States, Édith is the 382nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9dithThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Édith” — the 382nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.