Edie

Where Edie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Edie.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Edie through the years
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1963
    Peak, #699
    211 babies named Edie, the most in any year.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,119.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Edith, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Edie in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.