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Edyth

Recorded 1880–2025 · United States

Edyth was most popular in 1918, when 76 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,530 that year. In 2025 it ranked #24,763, with 5 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,283 people named Edyth.

Most popular in1918
Rank that year#1,530
Births that year76
Total since 18802,283
Given to100% girls
Alive today~496
Median age68

Edyth over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Edyth’s peak in 1918. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Edyth?

The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Edyth is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 111 of the 146 years since.

How many people are named Edyth?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,283 American births named Edyth between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 496 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Edyth in 2025?

5 American babies were named Edyth in 2025, ranking #24,763 that year.

Is Edyth getting more or less popular?

Edyth is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Edyth a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Edyth is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,283 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Edyth?

Roughly 496 Americans named Edyth are alive today — 22% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 68 years old, and half are between 31 and 82. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Edyth is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org