first name
EDITH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 92,920 people named Edith, 53% reported their origin as White, 31.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 11.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Edith peaked in 1918, when 7,877 babies got the name.
At least 271,705 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Edith by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #42. The largest share of babies named Edith, 47.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Edith is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Edith has been most common in West Virginia (2.5×), Kentucky (2×), and Virginia (1.8×), and least common in Alaska (0.21×).
218,088 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Edith, most common first.
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