Edna
Edna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 11th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19188,698 births
- Best rank
- #11in 1899
- Since 1880
- 296,064people given the name
The story in the numbers
295,022 girls have been named Edna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 8,698 births — 0.75% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 94 births in 2024, against 8,698 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 111 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 63 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,042 boys have also been given it, 0.35% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Edna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11,020 | |
| 1890s | 24,068 | |
| 1900s | 29,832 | |
| 1910s | 66,897 | |
| 1920s | 68,629 | |
| 1930s | 36,973 | |
| 1940s | 24,699 | |
| 1950s | 15,417 | |
| 1960s | 7,698 | |
| 1970s | 3,412 | |
| 1980s | 2,163 | |
| 1990s | 1,574 | |
| 2000s | 1,249 | |
| 2010s | 925 | |
| 2020s | 466 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Edna was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Edna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Agnespeak 1918
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Almapeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Verniepeak 1916
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Estapeak 1920
- Madgepeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.