Erna
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning eagle; serious and determined.
Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Erna by the numbers
Erna was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 358 babies in 1916, 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 Erna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ermawhole, universal; a form of Irma21 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a bird
Like Erna, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Erna
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