Entry № 2751 · Old English origin

Edwina Edwina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ed-WEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old English
Meaning
"Rich friend (feminine Edwin)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "rich friend (feminine edwin)".

Edwina is the feminine of Edwin — combining the Old English ead (rich, blessed) and wine (friend), meaning "rich friend" or "blessed friend."

Edwina Mountbatten (1901-1960) was the last Vicereine of India. Edwina Sharma is the heroine of Bridgerton's second season.

Rich friend. The last Vicereine of India.

The name in its native script.

Edwina
Transliteration
Edwina
Pronunciation
/ ɛdˈwiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Edwina stands.

Edwina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Edwinas before her.

Real people
Edwina Mountbatten
Last Vicereine of India.
1901 – 1960
Edwina Currie
British politician.
born 1946
In fiction
Edwina Sharma
Heroine of Bridgerton season 2.
Netflix, 2022

Names connected to Edwina.

The number behind Edwina.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Edwina reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.