girls:
269.7k births since 1880
#145 (97th percentile)
boys:
825 births since 1880
#3762 (18th percentile)
overall:
270.5k births since 1880
#290 (96th percentile)
The name Edith is the #290 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 270,515 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #145 (97.5% percentile) for all time with 269,690 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,762 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 825 births since 1880.
Edith has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Edith has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Edith reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #28) with 6,703 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 8,049 births per million (ranked 90.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Edith ranks #448 for girls (52.7% percentile) with 344 births per million, which is 4.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Edith reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #514) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 95 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edith".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Edith. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Edith is pronounced as EE-dihth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-dihth, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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