girls:
301 births since 1912
#5415 (5th percentile)
overall:
301 births since 1912
#7438 (4th percentile)
The name Edwena is the #7,438 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 301 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,415 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 301 births since 1912.
Edwena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for girls in 1912). Birth data for Edwena is available in 44 out of the 70 years between 1912 and 1981. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Edwena reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #597) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edwena".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Edwena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.6% confident that Edwena is pronounced as ehd-WEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ehd-WEH-nuh, at 17.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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