Edith

A female given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “war.”.

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Edith is a female given name, derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and ġȳð, meaning 'war', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form, also a common name in French, is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Edie and Edythe.
It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 2007 it was ranked at 730th most popular female name in the United States, according to the Social Security online database. It was more common as a name for children in the early 20th century than in the late 20th or early 21st centuries.
The name Edith has four name days: May 14 in Estonia, October 31 in Sweden, July 5 in Latvia, and September 16 in France.

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Fem. proper name, Old English Eadgyð, from ead "riches, prosperity, good fortune, happiness" + guð "war." A fairly common name; it survived through the Middle Ages, probably on the popularity of St. Eadgyð of Wilton (962-84, abbess, daughter of King Edgar of England), fell from favor 16c., was revived in fashion late 19c. Old English ead (also in eadig "wealthy, prosperous, fortunate, happy, blessed; perfect;" eadnes "inner peace, ease, joy, prosperity") became Middle English edy, eadi "rich, wealthy; costly, expensive; happy, blessed," but was ousted by happy. Late Old English, in its grab-bag of alliterative pairings, had edye men and arme "rich men and poor."

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Prosperous in war in English; combine of ead (prosperity, fortune) and gyo (war). Means: the unifier between divided factors, the peace maker or someone who encourages togetherness in French.

Edgyth, Edythe, Eden, Edie

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Edith Bouvier Beale	1917	Socialite
2	Edith Wharton	1862	American novelist, short story writer, designer
3	Edith Cavell	1865	British nurse
4	Edith Bolling Galt Wilson	1872	First Lady of the United states
5	Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale	1895	Socialite,Singer
6	Edith Head	1897	American film and television costumer
7	Edith Roosevelt	1861	Second wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
8	Edith Stein	1891	Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
9	Edith Bunker
10	Edith Flagg	1919	American fashion designer, former fashion industry executive, and philanthropist
11	Edith Frank	1900	Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank
12	Edith González	1964	Mexican actress
13	Edith Bowman	1975	British DJ
14	Edith Macefield	1921	American real-estate holdout
15	Edith Vonnegut	1949	American painter
16	Edith Evans	1888	British actress
17	Edith Tolkien	1889	J. R. R. Tolkien's wife and muse
18	Edith Sitwell	1887	British poet
19	Edith Rockefeller McCormick	1872	American socialite
20	Edith Cowan	1861	Australian politician - first female in an Australian parliament
21	Edith Massey	1918	Actress, singer
22	Edith Luckett Davis	1888	Actress and socialite
23	Edith Pargeter	1913	British writer
24	Edith Haisman	1896	Titanic survivor
25	Edith Hamilton	1867	American teacher and writer
26	Edith Barrett	1907	American actress
27	Edith of Wessex		Queen Consort of England
28	Edith Windsor	1929	American LGBT rights activist
29	Edith Bosch	1980	Dutch judoka
30	Edith Margaret Garrud	1872	British martial artist and suffragist
31	Edith New	1877
32	Edith the Fair	1025	Queen consort of England
33	Edith Tiempo	1919	Poet, fiction writer, teacher, literary critic
34	Edith Atwater	1911	American stage, film and television actress
35	Edith Hahn Beer	1914	Austrian Holocaust survivor
36	Edith Fellows	1923	Actress
37	Edith Hermida	1970	Argentinian announcer
38	Edith Nourse Rogers	1881	American politician
39	Edith Clarke	1883	American engineer
40	Edith Cummings	1899	Amateur golfer
41	Edith Schippers	1964	Dutch politician
42	Edith Jones	1949	American judge
43	Edith Durham	1863	British artist
44	Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry	1878	British noble
45	Edith Corse Evans	1875	American Titanic passenger
46	Edith Finch Russell	1900	American writer and wife of Bertrand Russell
47	Edith Rosenbaum	1877	American journalist
48	Edith Evanson	1896	American actress
49	Edith Schaeffer	1914	American writer
50	Edith Derby Williams	1917	American historian
51	Edith Abbott	1876	Economist
52	Edith Penrose	1914	Economist
53	Edith Lucie Bongo	1964	First Lady of Gabon
54	Edith Södergran	1892	Finnish poet
55	Edith Márquez	1973	Mexican singer and actress
56	Edith Schollwer	1904	German actress and voice actress
57	Edith S. Childs	1949	American politician
58	Edith Grossman	1936	American translator
59	Edith Holden	1871	British artist
60	Edith Ramirez		She attended san clemente highschool and was the valedictorian in 1985
61	Edith Sitzmann	1963	German politician
62	Edith Artois
63	Edith of Wilton	0961	English nun
64	Edith Mosbacher	1919	German actress and voice actress
65	Edith Rigby	1872	English suffragette
66	Edith Craig	1869	British actress, theatrical producer, theatre director, and suffragette.
67	Edith Brown Clement	1948	American judge
68	Edith Hall	1959	British academic of classics and cultural history
69	Edith Mathis	1938	Singer
70	Edith Ellis	1861	British novelist and women's right activist
71	Edith Serrano
72	Edith MacArthur	1926	British actress
73	Edith Pretty	1883	British landowner
74	Edith of Polesworth		Anglo-Saxon abbess
75	Edith Kaplan	1924	American psychologist
76	Edith Woodford-Grimes	1887	An English Wiccan who achieved notoriety as one of the faith's earliest known adherents
77	Edith Vanderbilt	1873	Vanderbilt family
78	Edith Green	1910	American politician
79	Edith Connor		American female bodybuilder
80	Edith Jacobson	1897	German psychologist
81	Edith Widder	1951	American oceanographer
82	Edith Pearlman	1936	American writer
83	Edith Starr Miller	1887	American activist
84	Edith Litwin	1944	Argentinian writer and psychologist
85	Edith Bliss	1959	Australian pop singer and television presenter
86	Edith Lefel	1963	French singer
87	Edith Thompson	1893	English woman executed as accomplice to murder of her husband
88	Edith Kramer	1916	Austrian artist
89	Edith Shackleton Heald
90	Edith Anna Somerville	1858	Irish artist
91	Edith Ellen Greenwood	1920
92	Edith Baumann	1909	Politician
93	Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun	1833	British noble
94	Edith S. Sampson	1898	African American lawyer and judge
95	Edith McGuire	1944	Athletics competitor
96	Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill	1901	British politician
97	Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun	1883	British noble
98	Edith Wilson	1896	American blues singer and vaudeville performer.
99	Edith Archibald	1854	Canadian activist
100	Edith Lake Wilkinson
101	Edith Roberts	1899	Silent film actress
102	Edith Teichmann	1927	German actress and voice actress
103	Edith Heath	1911	American designer
104	Edith Mary Brown	1864	British medical doctor and Christian missionary to India
105	Edith Maryon	1872	British artist
106	Edith Frost	1964	American musician
107	Edith Mary Kingdon	1864	American actress
108	Edith Storey	1892	American actress
109	Edith Wynne Matthison	1875	British actress
110	Edith Tudor-Hart	1908	Soviet spy and photographer
111	Edith Pattou		American children's writer
112	Edith Irby Jones	1927	American physician
113	Edith Heard	1965	Professor of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory
114	Edith M. Flanigen	1929	American chemist
115	Edith Minturn Stokes
116	Edith Bülbring	1903	British pharmacologist
117	Edith Behleit	1931	German actress
118	Edith Hamlin	1902	American painter and muralist
119	Edith Olivier	1872	Writer
120	Edith Marguerite Harrington	1893	Grandmother of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall
121	Edith Mabel Russo	1948	Argentinian writer
122	Edith Houghton Hooker	1879	American suffragist and social worker
123	Edith Coates	1908	Singer
124	Edith Day	1896	American actress and singer
125	Edith Bruck	1932	Hungarian Italian writer and film director
126	Edith Hanson	1939	American television personality
127	Edith Peters	1926	American singer and actress
128	Edith Masai	1967	Kenyan long-distance runner
129	Edith Hannam	1878	British tennis player
130	Edith Clever	1940	German actress and film director
131	Edith Halpert	1900	American art dealer
132	Edith Junghans	1887	German painter (1887-1968)
133	Edith Houghton	1912	Professional baseball player and scout
134	Edith Bone	1889	Hungarian aristocrat and writer
135	Edith Barr	1936
136	Edith Taliaferro	1894	American actress
137	Edith Prock	1949	German singer
138	Edith Pitt	1906	British politician
139	Edith Schreiner	1957	German politician and jurist
140	Edith Peinemann	1937	German classical violinist
141	Edith Clara Batho	1895	British adcademic administrator
142	Edith Veiga	1943	Brazilian composer and vocalist
143	Edith Sharpe	1893	British actress
144	Edith Josie	1921	Canadian writer
145	Edith Iglauer	1917	American journalist
146	Edith Efron	1922	American journalist
147	Edith Wiens	1950	Canadian singer
148	Edith Quimby	1891	American medical researcher
149	Edith Lewis	1881	Magazine editor at McClure's Magazine, the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson Co
150	Edith Thacher Hurd	1910	American children's writer known for picture book texts, many illustrated by her husband
151	Edith North Johnson	1903	American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter
152	Edith Kingdon Gould	1920	American socialite, linguist and poet
153	Edith Jeske	1957
154	Edith Kneifl	1954	Austrian writer
155	Edith Mansford Fitzgerald	1877	American deaf woman who invented a system for the hearing impaired to learn proper placement of words in constructing sentences
156	Edith Leerkes	1959	Dutch guitarist
157	Edith Fowke	1913	Canadian folklorist
158	Edith Banfield Jackson	1895	American psychiatrist
159	Edith Rogers	1894	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1935–1940
160	Edith Maud Cook	1878	British balloonist
161	Edith Kinney Gaylord	1916	American journalist
162	Edith Elsholtz	1930	German actress and voice actress
163	Edith Emily Morris	1895	Jewellery designer, silversmith
164	Edith Gertrude Schwartz	1877	Botanist (1877-1971)
165	Edith Jacobsohn	1891	German translator and publisher
166	Edith Pechey	1845	Doctor, campaigner for women's rights
167	Edith Forne		English noblewoman who was the concubine of King Henry I of England
168	Edith Oppenheim-Jonas	1907	German illustrator
169	Edith Yorke	1867	English actress
170	Edith Lanchester	1871	Lanchester, Edith (1871–1966), socialist and feminist
171	Edith Humphrey	1875	British chemist
172	Edith Schreiber-Wicke	1943	Austrian writer
173	Edith Rebecca Saunders	1865	British geneticist
174	Edith Atkins	1920	English racing cyclist
175	Edith Picht-Axenfeld	1914	German pianist and harpsichordist
176	Edith Templeton	1916	Czech writer
177	Edith Morley	1875	English literary scholar and suffragette
178	Edith Williams	1899	Canadian veterinarian
179	Edith Cross	1907	American tennis player
180	Edith Lagos	1962	Peruvian revolutionary
181	Edith Farnadi	1921	Pianist from Hungary
182	Edith Cadivec	1880	Austrian author
183	Edith Geheeb	1885	German educationist
184	Edith R. Wyle	1918	American artist
185	Edith Ennen	1907	German regional historian and archivist
186	Edith Ajello	1944	American politician
187	Edith Carlmar	1911	Norwegian actor and director
188	Edith Anne Stoney	1869	Anglo-Irish medical physicist
189	Edith Freilich		American bridge player
190	Edith Anisfield Wolf	1889	American philanthropist
191	Edith Birkhead	1889	British academic
192	Edith Emerson	1888	American painter (1888-1981)
193	Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick	1918	American politician
194	Edith Ogden Harrison	1862	American children's writer, known for original fairy tales, and travel writer
195	Edith van Dijk	1973	Dutch swimmer
196	Edith M. Stern	1901	American novelist
197	Edith Robinson	1906	First Australian female Olympic track and field athlete
198	Edith Turner	1754
199	Edith Pfau	1915	Painter, sculptor and art educator from the USA
200	Edith Rotch	1900	American tennis player