Edweena
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- [ ed-WEEN-a ]
- English (Rare)
Variant of EDWINA.
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| EDWIN male English, Dutch Means "rich friend" from the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and wine "friend". This was the name of a 7th-century Northumbrian king, regarded as a saint. After the Norman conquest the name was not popular, but it was eventually revived in the 19th century. A notable bearer was the astronaut Edwin Aldrin (1930-), also known as Buzz, the second man to walk on the moon. | |||||||||||||||||||