Meaning not yet researched.
Edwina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #379 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #379 in 1943; #11,199 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Edwina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,199 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #379.
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Edwina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #379 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 364 (1943).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Edwina, making it the 11,199th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,744 places from #15,943 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named Edwina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #379, reached in 1943. That year also had the most girls given the name: 364. For comparison, it was #11,157 in 2015 and #560 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Edwina in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 8 babies. In all, 15,465 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,802 babies named Edwina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 62 US girls were named Edwina; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Edwinna, Edwena and Edwyna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Edwin.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Edwinna (362), Edwena (301), Edwyna (152), Edwana (12), Edweina (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,199 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,943 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,480 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,889 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,510 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,358 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,934 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,085 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,157 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,575 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,540 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,466 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,532 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,779 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,281 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,031 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,467 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,240 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,150 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,694 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,801 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,068 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,513 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,974 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,867 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,413 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1984 | 85 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1982 | 115 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1980 | 133 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1979 | 79 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1976 | 76 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1972 | 105 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1969 | 120 | #986 | — | — |
| 1968 | 136 | #885 | — | — |
| 1967 | 157 | #797 | — | — |
| 1966 | 199 | #696 | — | — |
| 1965 | 194 | #706 | — | — |
| 1964 | 256 | #641 | — | — |
| 1963 | 285 | #589 | — | — |
| 1962 | 350 | #523 | — | — |
| 1961 | 298 | #585 | — | — |
| 1960 | 192 | #730 | — | — |
| 1959 | 184 | #750 | — | — |
| 1958 | 177 | #748 | — | — |
| 1957 | 205 | #697 | — | — |
| 1956 | 226 | #634 | — | — |
| 1955 | 221 | #624 | — | — |
| 1954 | 248 | #565 | — | — |
| 1953 | 234 | #580 | — | — |
| 1952 | 229 | #571 | — | — |
| 1951 | 243 | #538 | — | — |
| 1950 | 220 | #560 | — | — |
| 1949 | 230 | #551 | — | — |
| 1948 | 255 | #516 | — | — |
| 1947 | 271 | #501 | — | — |
| 1946 | 283 | #466 | — | — |
| 1945 | 272 | #435 | — | — |
| 1944 | 326 | #392 | — | — |
| 1943 | 364 | #379 | — | — |
| 1942 | 319 | #402 | — | — |
| 1941 | 216 | #476 | — | — |
| 1940 | 266 | #421 | — | — |
| 1939 | 242 | #433 | — | — |
| 1938 | 223 | #449 | — | — |
| 1937 | 225 | #436 | — | — |
| 1936 | 268 | #388 | — | — |
| 1935 | 222 | #432 | — | — |
| 1934 | 233 | #430 | — | — |
| 1933 | 255 | #405 | — | — |
| 1932 | 258 | #406 | — | — |
| 1931 | 248 | #411 | — | — |
| 1930 | 188 | #485 | — | — |
| 1929 | 158 | #545 | — | — |
| 1928 | 173 | #528 | — | — |
| 1927 | 192 | #505 | — | — |
| 1926 | 221 | #464 | — | — |
| 1925 | 238 | #448 | — | — |
| 1924 | 206 | #485 | — | — |
| 1923 | 209 | #478 | — | — |
| 1922 | 234 | #443 | — | — |
| 1921 | 190 | #513 | — | — |
| 1920 | 186 | #511 | — | — |
| 1919 | 182 | #500 | — | — |
| 1918 | 183 | #502 | — | — |
| 1917 | 154 | #540 | — | — |
| 1916 | 149 | #545 | — | — |
| 1915 | 144 | #523 | — | — |
| 1914 | 128 | #490 | — | — |
| 1913 | 90 | #536 | — | — |
| 1912 | 71 | #571 | — | — |
| 1911 | 48 | #619 | — | — |
| 1910 | 53 | #565 | — | — |
| 1909 | 48 | #553 | — | — |
| 1908 | 51 | #507 | — | — |
| 1907 | 38 | #604 | — | — |
| 1906 | 22 | #778 | — | — |
| 1905 | 39 | #559 | — | — |
| 1904 | 32 | #603 | — | — |
| 1903 | 20 | #768 | — | — |
| 1902 | 28 | #626 | — | — |
| 1901 | 31 | #549 | — | — |
| 1900 | 25 | #729 | — | — |
| 1899 | 28 | #578 | — | — |
| 1898 | 16 | #852 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #800 | — | — |
| 1896 | 24 | #641 | — | — |
| 1895 | 16 | #795 | — | — |
| 1894 | 28 | #546 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #670 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #920 | — | — |
| 1891 | 17 | #646 | — | — |
| 1890 | 15 | #699 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #855 | — | — |
| 1888 | 13 | #734 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #641 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #788 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #703 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #754 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #641 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).