Edie

Edie is a diminutive of Edith, from Old English Eadgyth, composed of ead (wealth, fortune) and gyth (war, battle). It means something like 'prosperous in war' — a formidable meaning for a name that sounds entirely delicate and charming on the surface.

Edie has a quality that is genuinely hard to manufacture: it sounds vintage and fresh simultaneously. The name peaked as a human nickname in the early-to-mid twentieth century — most famously on Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's glamorous muse — which gives it a cool, artistic pedigree for owners who appreciate that kind of cultural texture. For pets it works beautifully for female cats and small dogs with a certain waifish elegance, the kind who seem perpetually in soft focus and who inspire more devotion than their compact size would suggest possible.