Edwina
Feminine variation of Edwin
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Edwina Origin and Meaning
The name Edwina is a girl's name meaning "wealthy friend".
Edwina may still be taking tea in the parlor, but we can see her joining friends like Matilda and Josephine for a comeback, especially if pronounced like Edwin rather than Edween.
She had a very non-vintage-mauve image in the Coen brothers' cult favorite, Raising Arizona, in which Holly Hunter played a police officer named Edwina who was usually called Ed.
Edwina was on the Social Security list every year through 1969, reaching a high of 378 in 1943.
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Famous People Named Edwina
- Edwina Booth (born Josephine Constance Woodruff)American actress
- Edwina CurrieEnglish politician and novelist
- Edwina Cynthia Annette MountbattenCountess Mountbatten of Burma, English heiress
- Edwina Victoria Louise BrudenellEnglish heiress and model, granddaughter of Edwina Mountbatten
- (Frances) Edwina DummAmerican cartoonist
- Edwina SandysEnglish sculptor
- Edwina BrownAmerican basketball player
- Edwina "Eddie" BartholomewAustralian journalist and TV presenter
- Edwina HayesEnglish singer,songwriter
Edwina in Pop Culture
- Edwina Dunncharacter on British soap "EastEnders"
- Edwina Spoonapplemain character in children's musical "Dear Edwina" by Zina Goldrich
- Edwina Cranecharacter in Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" (1966,75)
- Edwina Lewischaracter on American soap "One Life to Live"
- Edwina "Eddie" Fergusonnurse in an episode of "MASH"
- Edwinapseudodragon in the tabletop game "Dungeons & Dragons"
- Edwinachicken in the claymation film Chicken Run
- Edwinacharacter from both versions of the film "The Beguiled"
- Edwina Sharmacharacter on Netflix's "Bridgerton"