Edythe

Where Edythe comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Edythe.

  • Old English
  • Vowel-ended
Edythe through the years
  1. 1863
    Edythe Chapman born
    American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls, with 19 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1914
    Edythe Wright born
    American singer
  4. 1915
    Peak, #256
    542 babies named Edythe, its best rank.
  5. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #421.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.
Namesakes
  • Edythe Chapman · American actress, 1863–1948
  • Edythe Wright · American singer, 1914–1965
  • Edythe Broad · American art collector and philanthropist, born 1936
  • Edythe Baker · American boogie-woogie pianist, 1899–1971
  • Edythe Mae Gordon · African American writer, 1897–1980

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.