Etymology

Quotations

• 1809 Charles and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children: Choosing a Name:

  Edith's pretty, but it looks / Better in old English books.

• 1903 Elizabeth Bisland, A Candle of Understanding, Harper&Brothers 1903, page 11:

  But suppose she had had an elder sister with a beautiful name like Edith. My conviction was deep and immovable that had I been named something really pretty like that, I would have found it easy to sew neatly and know my lessons.

• 2009 Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst, Banrtam Books, ISBN 0553807161, page 76:

  - - but they went and gave it to this woman named Edith, if you can believe that any woman with a name like Edith would have a clue about what's fashionable." "Edith Head?" I said. "The Oscar-winning costume designer?"

Proper noun

1. borrowed from in the 19th century.

Proper noun

1. , a popular spelling variant of Edit.

Proper noun

1. , a less common spelling of Edit.