Edith

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Honest opinions on Edith please...

Not that we should be adding to our ridiculously long girl's list but I've been liking it a lot recently... I'm curious to know how well received it is. Thanks!

It's a beautiful name and I was lectured at university by a very well-known Edith, so I also associate it with kick-assery and good things. Edie is sweet and rather pre-war, I like.

It's becoming more popular, especially with the events of the 1st World War and the Suffragettes being celebrated recently.

Edith New was one of the suffragettes who chained themselves to the railings of 10 Downing Street.

Edith Cavell is honoured as a heroine nurse in the 1st World War: she sheltered Allied servicemen in Belgium and helped them to escape.

Both were very brave women.

Love it

Elsie?

Love it. Love Cecily, too.

None of our options are overly popular here in Ireland. Beatrix is ranked 873, Cecily is unranked, Edith is 249, Elodie is 365, Felicity is 734, Florence is 219, Imogen is 289, Margot is 396, Penelope is 133 and Phoebe is 137. I know of one Phoebe and that's it from our list.

Our children's names are 241, 365 and 156 so for the most part very similar in popularity. I'm sure all their names are much more popular in the UK though.

@onetimeposter I'm not a huge fan of Elsie... Nothing wrong with it but it doesn't really appeal to me. It would definitely seem to short/nickname like against our LO's names too

Lady I agree, a name for a few Saxon Queens. King Harold's Queen/Handfast wife was known as Edith Swan Neck, how fabulous.

Oh i dont think old lady chic is as understood in ireland. We have irish names, classic names, dodgy names and olivias amelias isabellas etc but there are very few Ediths. Old lady chic is rarer. I know a lois and an honor though.

I like it, but locally it would be Ediff and in France it's said uh-deet which is confusing and I think sounds dreadful.

Love it, was on my list but DH vetoed, also really liked nn Edie.

@N0bodysM0t Edith is more popular here than I thought... It shocked me that it's above my youngest's, Violet's name. I'm not Irish (DH is) so I guess my taste is more in style with the UK rankings... maybe lol. Having worked with children, I am secretly pleased (not that it matters lol) with how my children's name sit in popularity... They're not popular, they won't be in a class with 5 others but they're still well known, classic names so nobody raises an eyelid. We've had comments on what lovely, unusual names our DDs have... DS's shortened form is quite popular here so it's not really seen as unusual lol.

I used to think old lady name but Edith Bowman is cool! And Edith Cavell as PPs have said...fab brave lady, what a heroine. It sounds nice in an Irish accent too- I disagree that it's harsh.

Love the name Edith ....reminds me of the classicist Edith Hall. She is fab!

Iv got an Edith :-) We always expected to call her Edie but she’s definitely an Edith for now!

Yeh my dc teens so im out of the loop

@N0bodysM0t The top names don't seem to change that much, to be fair lol. There were a few suprises when I checked the list though... A few names that I wasn't excepting to see/to be as highly ranked. DD1's name has jumped 454 places since we named her

Beautiful.

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It's awful IMO. Sorry OP.

Very frumpy IMO, and on a par with Edna, Deidre, and Joyce, and Maureen.

I prefer Edie.

Hate it. Clunky and dull.

I quite like Margot though.

My grans name was Edith and my mum was named after her. They both got called Edie.
Edie is nice for a kid. Edith is nice for an old lady

I know someone who called their baby Editha to make it alittle different x

Love it. Strong, cool, classy.

Can't abide Margot though. My auto correct always wants to change it to Maggot or Margate.