Edith

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

English modern form of Eadgyð ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Eadgyð

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Edith
Accusative:	Edith
Dative:	Edith
Genitive:	Edithar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1836 ^[3]

Namesakes

Edith Irene Södergran (4 April 1892 – 24 June 1923), Finland-Swedish poet

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		7747	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		1934	4742	0	0
Norway[7]		1184	2910	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	3122	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][5][7][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi