Erna
Erna is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 256th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916358 births
- Best rank
- #256in 1898
- Since 1880
- 9,060people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,060 girls have been named Erna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 358 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 358 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 27%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Erna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 201 | |
| 1890s | 879 | |
| 1900s | 1,045 | |
| 1910s | 2,465 | |
| 1920s | 2,035 | |
| 1930s | 1,047 | |
| 1940s | 590 | |
| 1950s | 379 | |
| 1960s | 181 | |
| 1970s | 70 | |
| 1980s | 19 | |
| 1990s | 15 | |
| 2000s | 95 | |
| 2010s | 33 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Erna was the 321st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Erna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fletapeak 1917
- Friedapeak 1916
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Exiepeak 1921
- Vivapeak 1921
- Ressiepeak 1917
- Erapeak 1916
- Hildapeak 1921
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.