Edith
Just 230 Polish women carry this English spelling, and no girl received it last year: most people here have never met one. The root is Germanic, from Old English Eadgyth, wealth joined to war.
Edith Pronunciation
What Edith means
Where Edith comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Edith comes from Old English Eadgyth, a Germanic compound. Its first part, ead, meant wealth or fortune; the second, gyth, meant war. Together they were read as "prosperous in war," which a Polish dictionary renders as bogata dzięki walce.
The name belongs to the English tradition. Saint Edith of Wilton, a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon nun, stands among its earliest recorded bearers, and centuries later the French singer Édith Piaf gave the form a very different kind of fame.
In Poland it settled as Edyta, with Edzia as the warm diminutive. Open a school register and Edyta might sit a few lines above Ewa. The singer Edyta Górniak carried that spelling to audiences well beyond Polish radio. Under every version the origin holds steady: ead and gyth, fortune and battle.
How many people are named Edith
1 in 98017 women in Poland is named Edith. 230 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2051 among female names.
Edith as a middle name
Edith is a first name for 230 women in Poland and a middle name for another 178, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 506th, between Albertyna (179) and Rachela (178).
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#504 Żanetta183
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#505 Albertyna179
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#506 Edith178
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#507 Rachela178
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#508 Bibianna177