Edith
Edith is ranked 528th among girls in 2024 (579 births). Its best rank was 26th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- #528down 25 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5790.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 19187,858 births
- Best rank
- #26in 1894
- Since 1880
- 270,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
270,279 girls have been named Edith in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 7,858 births — 0.68% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 579 births in 2024, against 7,858 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Edith | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10,881 | |
| 1890s | 17,650 | |
| 1900s | 20,884 | |
| 1910s | 56,059 | |
| 1920s | 62,989 | |
| 1930s | 31,047 | |
| 1940s | 22,149 | |
| 1950s | 15,479 | |
| 1960s | 9,001 | |
| 1970s | 4,251 | |
| 1980s | 3,195 | |
| 1990s | 4,469 | |
| 2000s | 4,126 | |
| 2010s | 5,018 | |
| 2020s | 3,081 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Edith was the 30th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Edith
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Florancepeak 1917
- Althapeak 1917
- Nellpeak 1917
- Edythpeak 1918
- Henriettapeak 1918
- Luellapeak 1918
- Elmirapeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.