Edwina

girls:

15.5k births since 1881

#1226 (79th percentile)

overall:

15.5k births since 1881

#2102 (73rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Edwina is the #2,102 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,452 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 72.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,226 (78.6% percentile) for all time with 15,452 births since 1881.

Edwina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Edwina is available in 138 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Edwina reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 45.0% percentile (ranked #345) with 254 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 254 births per million (ranked 45.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Edwina ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edwina".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
15,452
Peak Births
364
Peak Year
1943
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
45.0%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#345
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Edwina

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Edwina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 66.7% confident that Edwina is pronounced as ehd-WEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHD-wee-nuh, at 19.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.

ehd-WEE-nuh (3 syllables)
Verified
66.7% confidence
EH0 D W IY1 N AH0
EHD-wee-nuh (3 syllables)
19.6% confidence
EH1 D W IY0 N AH0
EHD-WEE-nuh (3 syllables)
7.8% confidence
EH1 D W IY1 N AH0
ehd-WAI-nuh (3 syllables)
5.9% confidence
EH0 D W AY1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Edwina? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Edwina. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Edwina, please vote using the thumbs up button.

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like EH0 D W IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

© 2025 NamePlay.org

Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker