Meaning not yet researched.
Edythe: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #256 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #256 in 1915; #11,200 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Edythe in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,200 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #256.
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Edythe: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #256 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 582 (1918).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Edythe, making it the 11,200th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,325 places from #12,525 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 7 girls named Edythe in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #256, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 582, in 1918. For comparison, it was #13,397 in 2015 and #1,009 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Edythe in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 19 babies. In all, 13,880 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 4,055 babies named Edythe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US girls were named Edythe; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Edith (271,705 babies since 1880) and Edyth (2,283 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eddythe are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Edie and Edye.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eddythe (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 | #11,200 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,538 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,059 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,512 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,900 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,943 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,704 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,935 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,039 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,397 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,776 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,719 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,554 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,916 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,626 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,097 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,441 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,008 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,252 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,046 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,085 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,136 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,874 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,479 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,426 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,504 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,195 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,997 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,438 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,245 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,404 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,293 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,666 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1956 | 66 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1951 | 76 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1949 | 82 | #993 | — | — |
| 1948 | 81 | #967 | — | — |
| 1947 | 95 | #910 | — | — |
| 1946 | 93 | #858 | — | — |
| 1945 | 92 | #780 | — | — |
| 1944 | 87 | #819 | — | — |
| 1943 | 95 | #796 | — | — |
| 1942 | 94 | #785 | — | — |
| 1941 | 107 | #679 | — | — |
| 1940 | 107 | #670 | — | — |
| 1939 | 103 | #669 | — | — |
| 1938 | 116 | #639 | — | — |
| 1937 | 112 | #641 | — | — |
| 1936 | 117 | #606 | — | — |
| 1935 | 116 | #605 | — | — |
| 1934 | 142 | #542 | — | — |
| 1933 | 138 | #541 | — | — |
| 1932 | 154 | #528 | — | — |
| 1931 | 176 | #485 | — | — |
| 1930 | 159 | #539 | — | — |
| 1929 | 191 | #486 | — | — |
| 1928 | 261 | #421 | — | — |
| 1927 | 293 | #401 | — | — |
| 1926 | 310 | #391 | — | — |
| 1925 | 386 | #342 | — | — |
| 1924 | 442 | #317 | — | — |
| 1923 | 423 | #312 | — | — |
| 1922 | 487 | #292 | — | — |
| 1921 | 521 | #290 | — | — |
| 1920 | 512 | #291 | — | — |
| 1919 | 517 | #280 | — | — |
| 1918 | 582 | #261 | — | — |
| 1917 | 561 | #263 | — | — |
| 1916 | 507 | #271 | — | — |
| 1915 | 542 | #256 | — | — |
| 1914 | 365 | #273 | — | — |
| 1913 | 318 | #259 | — | — |
| 1912 | 293 | #261 | — | — |
| 1911 | 181 | #292 | — | — |
| 1910 | 189 | #282 | — | — |
| 1909 | 151 | #292 | — | — |
| 1908 | 147 | #292 | — | — |
| 1907 | 153 | #283 | — | — |
| 1906 | 146 | #276 | — | — |
| 1905 | 117 | #310 | — | — |
| 1904 | 116 | #299 | — | — |
| 1903 | 90 | #329 | — | — |
| 1902 | 113 | #296 | — | — |
| 1901 | 123 | #263 | — | — |
| 1900 | 119 | #301 | — | — |
| 1899 | 91 | #314 | — | — |
| 1898 | 116 | #283 | — | — |
| 1897 | 98 | #287 | — | — |
| 1896 | 90 | #307 | — | — |
| 1895 | 88 | #310 | — | — |
| 1894 | 77 | #319 | — | — |
| 1893 | 71 | #319 | — | — |
| 1892 | 71 | #320 | — | — |
| 1891 | 53 | #346 | — | — |
| 1890 | 55 | #347 | — | — |
| 1889 | 57 | #326 | — | — |
| 1888 | 46 | #350 | — | — |
| 1887 | 51 | #297 | — | — |
| 1886 | 46 | #308 | — | — |
| 1885 | 39 | #324 | — | — |
| 1884 | 20 | #451 | — | — |
| 1883 | 23 | #387 | — | — |
| 1882 | 24 | #364 | — | — |
| 1881 | 19 | #384 | — | — |
| 1880 | 19 | #377 | — | — |
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).