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Edna

Girls' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~56,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,458 among girls
Births in 2025
72 296,158 since 1880
Typical age
75 years, median

Edna popularity over time

Edna rank by birth year, 1880–2025Edna ranked #45 in 1880 and #2,458 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #11, in 1899.#10#100#1,000#2,458best #11 in 189918901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1918: 8,730 births recorded as Edna. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 63 years put Edna in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #2,458, on 72 births. Year on year the rank dropped by 418.

Babies named Edna per yearPeaks at 8,730 births in 1918.8,730 in 1918018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Edna?

Roughly 56,500 Ednas are alive in the US right now. That is out of 296,158 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Edna?

The typical living Edna is 75 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 1940s. By the site’s era rules that makes Edna a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Edna

Ages of living people named EdnaHalf of living Ednas are older than 75 and half younger.median 75020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Edna is most common

The name is concentrated in Ohio, at 3.0× the national rate. Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin follow.

Where Edna is used more than average5 states use the name Edna more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: 1.6× the national rateMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: 1.7× the national rateWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: 1.9× the national rateINOhio: 3.0× the national rateOHPennsylvania: 1.9× the national ratePANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Edna is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Ohio 83 3.0×
Indiana 31 1.9×
Pennsylvania 51 1.9×
Wisconsin 21 1.7×
Minnesota 20 1.6×

Edna in England and Wales

ONS recorded 4 births named Edna in 2025, ranking it #4,867. That is 50% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Edna comes from

From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Edna

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Edna St. Vincent Millay American poet 1892–1950 60
Edna O'Brien Irish writer 1930–2024 46
Edna Ferber American novelist, short story writer and playwright 1885–1968 45
Edna Purviance actress 1895–1958 37
Edna Kiplagat Kenyan long-distance runner 1979 34
Edna Parker American supercentenarian 1893–2008 29
Edna May Oliver American actress 1883–1942 28
Edna Adan Ismail Somaliland politician 1937 25
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Edna

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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