Edythe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛdaɪð/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Edythe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 126K(measured from records)
- HUHungary1 in 188as Edit
- SESweden1 in 2.1Kas Edit
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Edythe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
52,019 named Edit, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Edit in SE Sweden, US United States and Эдит in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edythe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | 52,019as Edit | 1 in 188 | 52K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 4,842as Edit | 1 in 2.1K | 4.8K | Edit | 2 |
| US United States | 2,649 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Edit | 17 |
| FI Finland | 944as Edit | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | Эдит | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | 567as Edit | 1 in 51K | 567 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 153as Edit | 1 in 22K | 153 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 62as Edit | 1 in 50K | 47 | — | — |
52,019 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Edythe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: fanciful respelling of EDITH , popular in the United States during the early part of the 20th century.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzonb. 1850CACanadian poet
- Edythe Chapmanb. 1863USAmerican actress (1863-1948)
- Edythe Mae Gordonb. 1897USAfrican American writer
- Edythe Ferrisb. 1897USAmerican artist (1897–1995)
- Edythe Bakerb. 1899USAmerican boogie-woogie pianist (1899-1971)
- Edythe Shuttleworthb. 1907CACanadian opera singer
- Edythe Wrightb. 1914USAmerican singer (1914–1965)
- Lisa Benb. 1921USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1921–2015)
- Edie Landaub. 1927not in their usual nameAmerican film producer (1927–2022)
- Edythe Harrisonb. 1934USpolitician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,133 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 582 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 561 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 542 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 521 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 517 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 512 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 507 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 487 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 442 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 423 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 386 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edythe mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Edythe?
- In the etymology graph, Edith, Edit and Editha are forms of the same name in other languages; Edie is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Edythe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛdaɪð/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Edythe a male or female name?
- Edythe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Edythe have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Edit, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Edythe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edythe is densest in the United States — about 1 in 126 thousand people — even though Hungary holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Edythe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,649 people named Edythe in 2020, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Edythe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edytheThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edythe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.