girls:
9.1k births since 1880
#1699 (70th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1909
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.1k births since 1880
#2834 (63rd percentile)
The name Erna is the #2,834 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,071 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 63.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,699 (70.3% percentile) for all time with 9,060 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1909.
Erna has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1909 for boys). Birth data for Erna is available in 120 out of the 142 years between 1880 and 2021 (120 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Erna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Erna reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 47.0% percentile (ranked #304) with 330 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 492 births per million (ranked 35.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Erna reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #549) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1921.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erna".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Erna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Erna is pronounced as ER-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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