Edna
A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning rejuvenation, pleasure.
Babies a year
71
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies
Edna by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Edna. In the US, 71 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 8,698 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Edna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Enashining fire or brilliance10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Edawealth; prosperity18 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ennakernel or centre3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Eddapoetry; grandmother9 in the US (2017)
- Edinafrom Edinburgh; poetic name for Scotland5 in the US (2017)
- Elnanoble; a form of Eleanor5 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Edna
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