Edelweiss
EH-del-vice; AY-del-vice
Flower name, from German
"noble white"
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Updated Thu Jun 12 2025
Edelweiss Origin and Meaning
The name Edelweiss is a girl's name meaning "noble white".
Edelweiss, made famous by the Rogers and Hammerstein song in "The Sound of Music", is a rare female name.
In German 'edel' means 'noble' and 'weiss' means 'white'. Edelweiss is the colloquial name for the Leontopodium alpinum, a small white mountain flower sometimes used in herbal folk medicine.
In this age, though, Edelweiss might make a better name for a white cat than for a little girl.
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