Given name & surname
Edit
Edit is a variant of Edith. One English interpretation is “the spoils of war; one who is joyous; a treasure.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Edit is a variant of Edith. One English interpretation is “the spoils of war; one who is joyous; a treasure.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Edit is a variant of Edith. An origin associated with Edith is Old English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 179
- 0 boys · 179 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 885 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Edit’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Edit shares a linguistic root with the English form Edith. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Edit has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Edyta. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Edit has a related form in Edith.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Edit has relatives in 11 languages.
5 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Edit
- Edith EgerHungarian-American clinical psychologist and Holocaust survivor (1927–2026)
- Edith FarkasAntarctic researcher & meteorologist1921–1993
- Edit MiklósHungarian alpine skierborn 1988
- Edit KovácsHungarian fencer (1954–)
- Edit BauerSlovak politicianborn 1946
- Edit Perényi-WeckingerHungarian gymnast (1923-2019)
- Edit HerczogHungarian politicianborn 1961
- Edit UrbanHungarian table tennis playerborn 1961
- Edit KindvallSwedish teacher, photographer and suffragette1866–1951
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