Edythe

Where Edythe comes from

The dictionaries list Edythe as a given name — a female given name from Old English, variant of Edith — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Old English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1863
    Edythe Chapman born
    American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1914
    Edythe Wright born
    American singer
  4. 1915
    Peak, #256
    542 babies named Edythe — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #421.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old English, variant of Edith.
Namesakes
  • Edythe Chapman · American actress, 1863–1948
  • Edythe Wright · American singer, 1914–1965
  • Edythe Broad · American art collector and philanthropist, born 1936
  • Edythe Baker · American boogie-woogie pianist, 1899–1971
  • Edythe Mae Gordon · African American writer, 1897–1980

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.