as a First Name
In Ireland this has been used as an Anglicized form of Eithne. The name occurs in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, where it is the name of the mother of Sarah and stepmother of Tobias. This is said to be from Hebrew ῾ednah ‘pleasure, delight’, and if so it is connected with the name of the Garden of Eden. The earliest known uses of the given name in England are in the 16th century, when it was probably imported from Ireland, although the spelling Ednah supports the idea that it was taken from the Bible.
| 393rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 124,824
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 221,989
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Edna per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
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