Edwina
Meeting an Edwina in Poland is a real event: only about 140 women carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. At root it's the feminine of Edwin, from Old English ead and wine, "wealth" and "friend".
Edwina Pronunciation
Edwina is pronounced ed-VEE-nah (/ɛdˈvina/).
What Edwina means
Where Edwina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edwina is the feminine form of Edwin, and both go back to the Old English name Eadwine. The first part, ead, meant wealth or good fortune. The second, wine, meant friend. Together they give the meaning kept here: rich friend.
One real bearer fixes the name in history. Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, lived from 1901 to 1960. She worked with the St John Ambulance Brigade and the Red Cross during and after the Second World War, and her name became attached to that public service.
On a Polish class register the name still reads as plainly English. A teacher calling Edwina marks the Germanic root without meaning to. The wealth in that root was never only money. Ead pointed to fortune and worth, and it sits inside the plain gloss the name still carries: rich friend.
When Edwina celebrates name day
Edwina appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 4 October.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Edwina
1 in 161027 women in Poland is named Edwina. 140 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2769 among female names.
Edwina as a middle name
Edwina is a first name for 140 women in Poland and a middle name for another 53, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 936th, between Dagny (53) and Erin (53).
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#934 Żanna54
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#935 Dagny53
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#936 Edwina53
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#937 Erin53
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#938 Eurydyka53