girls:
294.9k births since 1880
#128 (98th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1881
#3553 (22nd percentile)
overall:
296k births since 1880
#256 (97th percentile)
The name Edna is the #256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 295,958 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #128 (97.8% percentile) for all time with 294,916 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,553 (22.5% percentile) for all time with 1,042 births since 1881.
Edna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Edna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Edna reached its peak popularity in 1899, achieving the 97.0% percentile (ranked #11) with 10,239 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 10,558 births per million (ranked 95.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Edna ranks #851 for girls (10.1% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Edna reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #506) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 122 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edna".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Edna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Edna is pronounced as EHD-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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