Name within credit history (5)

I believe the answer is:

edith

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'name' is the definition.
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I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.

(Other definitions for edith that I've seen before include "Cavell, Piaf or Wharton" , "Woman" , "Evans, Sitwell or Piaf" , "- - Piaf, singer" , "- Cavell, nurse executed in 1915" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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