Edythe
Edythe was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,196 among girls’ names; 13,880 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Edythe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 63 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edythe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edythe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Edythe is “a female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edythe?
#11,196 among girls’ names, 2025
Edythe rose from #13,392 in 2015 to #11,196 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
582 babies in 1918, the peak
Edythe peaked in 1918, when 582 girls were given it, #261 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,196 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,520 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,533 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,054 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,507 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,895 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,938 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,699 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,931 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,036 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,392 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,773 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,714 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,547 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,912 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,620 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,091 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,435 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,003 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,245 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,361 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,425 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,995 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,243 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,035 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,445 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,265 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,602 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,544 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 66 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 76 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 82 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 81 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 95 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 93 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 92 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 87 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 95 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 94 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 107 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 107 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 103 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 116 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 112 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 117 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 116 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 142 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 138 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 154 | #528 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 176 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1930 | 159 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 191 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1928 | 261 | #421 | 0.23 |
| 1927 | 293 | #401 | 0.25 |
| 1926 | 310 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1925 | 386 | #342 | 0.32 |
| 1924 | 442 | #317 | 0.35 |
| 1923 | 423 | #312 | 0.35 |
| 1922 | 487 | #292 | 0.41 |
| 1921 | 521 | #290 | 0.42 |
| 1920 | 512 | #291 | 0.43 |
| 1919 | 517 | #280 | 0.46 |
| 1918 | 582 | #261 | 0.50 |
| 1917 | 561 | #263 | 0.52 |
| 1916 | 507 | #271 | 0.49 |
| 1915 | 542 | #256 | 0.55 |
| 1914 | 365 | #273 | 0.48 |
| 1913 | 318 | #259 | 0.51 |
| 1912 | 293 | #261 | 0.52 |
| 1911 | 181 | #292 | 0.43 |
| 1910 | 189 | #282 | 0.48 |
| 1909 | 151 | #292 | 0.43 |
| 1908 | 147 | #292 | 0.44 |
| 1907 | 153 | #283 | 0.48 |
| 1906 | 146 | #276 | 0.49 |
| 1905 | 117 | #310 | 0.40 |
| 1904 | 116 | #299 | 0.42 |
| 1903 | 90 | #329 | 0.34 |
| 1902 | 113 | #296 | 0.43 |
| 1901 | 123 | #263 | 0.51 |
| 1900 | 119 | #301 | 0.40 |
| 1899 | 91 | #314 | 0.39 |
| 1898 | 116 | #283 | 0.45 |
| 1897 | 98 | #287 | 0.42 |
| 1896 | 90 | #307 | 0.38 |
| 1895 | 88 | #310 | 0.38 |
| 1894 | 77 | #319 | 0.35 |
| 1893 | 71 | #319 | 0.33 |
| 1892 | 71 | #320 | 0.33 |
| 1891 | 53 | #346 | 0.29 |
| 1890 | 55 | #347 | 0.29 |
| 1889 | 57 | #326 | 0.32 |
| 1888 | 46 | #350 | 0.26 |
| 1887 | 51 | #297 | 0.35 |
| 1886 | 46 | #308 | 0.32 |
| 1885 | 39 | #324 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 20 | #451 | 0.16 |
| 1883 | 23 | #387 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 24 | #364 | 0.22 |
| 1881 | 19 | #384 | 0.21 |
| 1880 | 19 | #377 | 0.21 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edythe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edythe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 127 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edythe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edythe, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 14% of the 13,880 Americans ever recorded as Edythe. The median Edythe alive today is 74 years old; half are between 63 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 2,649 people named Edythe (2,646 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 588 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 904 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 118 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Edythe born?
The states with the most babies named Edythe are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,759 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,162 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 593 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 564 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 505 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 374 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 351 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 277 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 214 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 187 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Edythe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edythe is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Edythe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 14,471 babies since 1880, Edythe is the most given (96% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Edythe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Edythe and names like it
- Compare Edythe and EdithaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEdythe peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edythe since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Edythe.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Edythe alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.