Edith
Edith is a female first name , consisting of the English was taken over (from Old English ead for "heritage", "property" and ġȳð for "fight"). The name did not appear in Germany until the 19th century with other English names.
The name Edith was one of the ten most frequently given girl names in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s. Its popularity began to decline in the early 1940s, and it has been less common since the late 1960s.
Name days
August 9th, September 16th, December 8th
Memorial days
- January 26th ( Edith , wife of Otto the Great , long regarded as holy)
- August 9 (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, in the world Edith Stein )
- September 16 (St Edith of Wilton , 984 martyr in England)
- December 8 (Saint Edith, 819 martyr in France)
variants
Further variants of the name in the different languages are:
- Danish: Ditte
- German: Editha , Edda , Edgitha , Edit
- English: Edie , Edi , Edytha , Edythe , Dedit
- French: Édith
- Polish: Edyta
- Portuguese: Edite
- Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Lithuanian: Edita , Dita
- Hungarian: Edit
Name bearers
- Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American social scientist a. Social reformer
- Edith Baumann (1909–1973), German socialist politician and FDJ functionary
- Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), American actress and model
- Edith Carlmar (1911–2003), Norwegian actress and director
- Edith Carstensen (1926-2018), German silhouette artist
- Edith Clever (* 1940), German actress and director
- Édith Cresson (* 1934), French politician (PS), Prime Minister
- Edith Evans (1888–1976), British actress
- Edith Fellows (1923–2011), American actress
- Edith Gabry (1927–2012), Hungarian soprano
- Edith Xio Mara García García (* 1977), Mexican paleobiologist and chess player
- Edyta Górniak (* 1972), Polish singer
- Edita Gruberová (* 1946), Slovak opera singer
- Edith Hamilton (1867–1963), German-American teacher and writer
- Edith Hancke (1928–2015), German actress
- Edith Heerdegen (1913–1982), German actress
- Edith Jacobsohn (1891–1935), German translator and publisher
- Edith Johnson (1903–1988), American jazz pianist and blues singer
- Edith Kneifl (* 1954), Austrian writer
- Edith Leffmann (1894–1984), German pediatrician
- Edith Mathis (* 1938), Swiss soprano
- Edith Mill (1925–2007), Austrian theater and film actress
- Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), British author
- Edith Pargeter (1913–1995), British writer
- Edith Peinemann (* 1937), German violinist
- Edith Peter (* 1958), Austrian ski racer
- Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French chanson singer
- Edith Picht-Axenfeld (1914–2001), German harpsichordist and pianist
- Edita Stanislawowna Pjecha (* 1937), Russian pop singer
- Edith Potter (1901-1993), American pathologist
- Edith Prock (* 1949), German singer
- Edith Rimmington (1902–1986), British artist, photographer and poet
- Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948), second wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt
- Edith Rosenbaum (1879–1975), American fashion journalist and war correspondent
- Edith of Scotland (~ 1080–1118)
- Edith Schultze-Westrum (1904–1981), German actress
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet
- Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish-Swedish poet
- Edith Stein (1891–1942), German philosopher and Catholic nun of Jewish origin
- Edyth Swannesha (Old English "Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce, Edith [the] gentle swan"; * around 1025, † after 1066), life companion of King Harald II of England
- Edith Thys (* 1966), American ski racer
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist
- Edith Wolf-Hunkeler (* 1972), Swiss athlete
Others
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- ↑ DUDEN, Lexicon of Given Names, Dudenverlag, Mannheim - Zurich, 2012, p. 117
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
Web links
Wiktionary: Edith - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
