Edna
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Edna
Edna is one of those names that, until what it seemed like a few minutes ago, felt so terminally frumpy that no one could imagine a parent choosing it for an innocent modern baby girl. But with the great upswing in names honoring ancestral family members, several of them being other four-letter, e-ending names, we wouldn't be so sure.
Edna, which means delight, is a semi-biblical name--in the Apocrypha she is seen as a loving mother-- and was enormously popular in this country in the late nineteenth century, reaching as high as Number 11. It also relates to Eden--another, more contemporary sounding, option.
Three literary bearers of the name are Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber and Edna O'Brien, and to some the name might be identified with the campy character, Dame Edna Everage.
Edna is also given to boys.
Pronounced ED-nuh.
As of October 2026, Edna ranked #2463 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #11 in 1899.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,131 | 90 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,300 | 81 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,289 | 83 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,409 | 75 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,695 | 122 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,238 | 82 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,084 | 88 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,089 | 91 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,125 | 90 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,925 | 103 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,054 | 94 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,463 | 72 | — | 0 |
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Edna on lists
Famous Ednas
- Edna FerberGirl
American novelist
- Edna St. Vincent MillayGirl
American poet
- (Olga) Edna PurvianceGirl
American silent film actress; frequent Charlie Chaplin co,star
- Edna O'BrienGirl
Irish novelist
- (Edna) Annie ProulxGirl
American novelist
- Edna May OliverGirl
American character actress
- Edna Mae "Deanna" DurbinGirl
Canadian,American actress and singer
- Edna Staebler (born Cora Margaret Cress)Girl
Canadian journalist and cookbook author
- Edna Rae GilloolyGirl
birth name of Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- Edna LyallGirl
pen name of English novelist Ada Ellen Bayly
- Edna Ngeringwony KiplagatGirl
Kenyan distance runner
- Edna Dore (born Edna Lillian Gorring)Girl
English actress
- Edna BestGirl
English actress
- (Flora) Edna WhiteGirl
American trumpeter and bandleader
- Edna DeakinGirl
American architect
Edna in pop culture
- Edna ModeGirl
character in animated movie "The Incredibles"
- Edna TurnbladGirl
character in movie and musical Hairspray
- Edna KrabappelGirl
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Edna BirchGirl
character on British soap "Emmerdale"
- Edna PontellierGirl
main character in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
- "Cinder EdnaGirl
" children's book
- Edna PoppyGirl
character in Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees"
- EdnaGirl
servant of the Birling Household in the play "An Inspector Calls"
- Edna GarrettGirl
character on TV series "Facts of LIfe"