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Edna
Pronounced /ˈɛdnə/
Rank in 2024
#2,055
Born in 2024
94
Peak year
1918 · #23
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 94 girls were named Edna, about 1 in every 17,162.
- It peaked in 1918 with 8,698 babies, ranked #23.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 295,022 girls have been named Edna since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Edna per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.4Greatest1901–27
- 3.1Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 151,852 babies, 7.42 per 1,000. Silent: 63,109 babies, 3.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 29,155 babies, 0.81 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,623 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,068 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,929 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,096 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit. In Ireland and Scotland it has been used as an anglicization of Eithne.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈɛdnə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Edna, CC BY-SA 4.0.