Edit — girls' name

What the Data Says About Edit

The Social Security Administration has registered 179 babies named Edit between 1975 and 2009, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Edit currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Edit performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Edit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Edit in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Edit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 179 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.