Edyta
Around 110,000 Poles have this name, enough that it rings familiar. In practice, it's a women's name.
Edyta Pronunciation
Edyta is pronounced e-DIH-tah (/ɛˈdɨta/).
What Edyta means
Where Edyta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edyta belongs to an older stock of names that gather prosperity and battle into a single word. The meaning kept beside it in Polish records reads "prosperous in war." That gloss came to sit on the name over time, less a fixed definition than an inheritance passed down with its sound.
In English the same name appears as Edith, the variant a Polish speaker might spot on an old census or a foreign passport. At home Edyta softens to Edzia. Edzia stays for family.
Polish calendars give Edyta her imieniny on the sixteenth of September, the feast of Saint Edith of Wilton. Picture an autumn class register, an Edyta answering to the teacher while her friends already call her Edzia. The name still ranks near the fiftieth spot among girls' names in Poland, and it still means, by the old gloss, prosperous in war.
When Edyta celebrates name day
Edyta appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 16 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Edyta
1 in 198 women in Poland is named Edyta. 113,739 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #117 among female names.
Edyta's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #629 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #117 name among living women, even as it slips to #629 among newborns.
Where Edyta is most popular
Edyta is most popular in Podlaskie, 118% above the national average (14 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+109%) and Silesian (+80%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and West Pomeranian, 71% and 64% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie14 girls born+118%
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Pomeranian30 girls born+109%
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Silesian40 girls born+80%
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Lesser Poland32 girls born+44%
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Opole5 girls born+11%
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Subcarpathian12 girls born+2%
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Łódź12 girls born−3%
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Lublin9 girls born−10%
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Greater Poland18 girls born−14%
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Świętokrzyskie4 girls born−26%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born−44%
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Masovian18 girls born−48%
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Lower Silesian6 girls born−61%
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West Pomeranian3 girls born−64%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−71%
Edyta as a middle name
Edyta is a first name for 113,739 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39,174, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 58th, between Wiesława (40,307) and Lucyna (37,178).
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#56 Antonina41,518
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#57 Wiesława40,307
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#58 Edyta39,174
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#59 Lucyna37,178
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#60 Hanna36,564