Edwina

Feminine variation of Edwin

"wealthy friend"

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.

Edwina Rank in US Top 1000

# 983 in the US

Edwina Popularity

• 1681 Nameberry 2024

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Famous People Named Edwina

• Edwina Booth (born Josephine Constance Woodruff) American actress
• Edwina Currie English politician and novelist
• Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten Countess Mountbatten of Burma, English heiress
• Edwina Victoria Louise Brudenell English heiress and model, granddaughter of Edwina Mountbatten
• (Frances) Edwina Dumm American cartoonist
• Edwina Sandys English sculptor
• Edwina Brown American basketball player
• Edwina "Eddie" Bartholomew Australian journalist and TV presenter
• Edwina Hayes English singer,songwriter

Edwina in Pop Culture

• Edwina Dunn character on British soap "EastEnders"
• Edwina Spoonapple main character in children's musical "Dear Edwina" by Zina Goldrich
• Edwina Crane character in Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" (1966,75)
• Edwina Lewis character on American soap "One Life to Live"
• Edwina "Eddie" Ferguson nurse in an episode of "MASH"
• Edwina pseudodragon in the tabletop game "Dungeons & Dragons"
• Edwina chicken in the claymation film Chicken Run
• Edwina character from both versions of the film "The Beguiled"