Message: "Edith!" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Edith!

by lakin5

11/29/2011, 7:35 PM

My current name obsession is Edith and Edie I like as a nickname!

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- New_Chloe

12/1/2011, 9:06 AM

Good for you! It takes some guts to like Edith. I personally love Edie but Edith a touch less. Edythe is awesome and my preferred spelling (it looks so medieval-queeny), but I also really like the French Édith (ay-DEET).

Actually hey I just realized, I like Edith Piaf and that would be a swell namesake. And Edie is so jazzy and sharp. Now I'm on an EDITH KICK!

Edith Sparrow, how's that for a Piaf-worthy combo

This message was edited 12/1/2011, 9:09 AM

- Pink Princess

11/30/2011, 11:52 PM

I think Edith "Edie" is just lovely. I do prefer just Edie as a full name though personally.

- Evie. (augustbugx) +1

11/30/2011, 12:35 PM

I adore Edith and Edie as a nickname ! :)

my 'Edith' combo is Edith Matilda

- abbasdaughter

11/30/2011, 6:37 PM

Interestingly, despite really disliking both Edith and Matilda, they do flow well together.

- insane romantic +6

11/30/2011, 7:43 AM

I love Edie! Edith is OK, but I'd only use it so that I could use Edie as a nickname.

My great-great Aunt was called Edie, her brother and sisters were Reg (Reginald) and May.

- New_Chloe

12/1/2011, 9:06 AM

That is an AWESOME sibset

- khaotickharma +4

11/30/2011, 11:38 AM

That's how I feel... I get called "Edie" fairly often even though my name isn't Edith, and I really love it. Unfortunately, it's hard to find a more aesthetic full first name to allow for it as a middle name :(

- insane romantic +3

11/30/2011, 2:34 PM

What is your name - I can't think of any others which might have Edie other than Edith...

- bellissima (guest)

12/2/2011, 11:33 PM

how about Meredith as a first name and then shortend to Edith and then shortened to Edie.

- khaotickharma +1

11/30/2011, 7:22 PM

Eden :)

- abbasdaughter

11/30/2011, 9:48 PM

That's MUCH nicer than Edith... by a long shot.

- Mareasi (Free_Spirited_Girly) +1

11/30/2011, 2:42 AM

I love Edith nn Edie. I think it's definately on the come back

- abbasdaughter

11/30/2011, 6:40 PM

May be on the "comeback" in Sweden, but the American stats still have it going DOWN in the charts.

- abbasdaughter

11/30/2011, 2:29 AM

I still find it really unattractive. Edie's an ok nn, but there's just something old and frumpy about Edith.

- Anneza +1

11/29/2011, 10:24 PM

I was at school with an Edith Linda Marie! She never used a nn to my knowledge. They were a Scottish family, and she is the only English-speaking Edith I've ever met, though I was also at school with a German Editha.

Unfortunately for the name, where I live there's a popular cartoon character - a grumpy old gin-swigging grandmother - named Edith, which I thought was perfect until it turned out she had an identical twin sister named Abigail.

- bellissima (guest)

12/2/2011, 11:37 PM

you know which cartoon characters i think of? i think of Betty and Veronica chasing after Archie and then i think of big Ethel chasing after Jughead. but then Jughead only cares about eating hamburgers. i believe that namesakes go a long way in shaping people's perceptions of names.

- Wordsmith

11/29/2011, 8:51 PM

Edith is one of my favorite names! Her earthy, bookish elegance enchants me.

- Edith Therese (NamesAreAwesome)

11/29/2011, 7:39 PM

I LOVE EDITH! But... I do NOT like Edie as a nickname. I'm more into Eda or something.

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