Edie

Where Edie comes from

The dictionaries list Edie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Edith, also used as a formal given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1963
    Peak, #699
    211 babies named Edie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,119.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Edith, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Edie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.