How rare is the name Edna?

68,962 people in the United States have the first name Edna, about 1 in 4,380. It ranks #739 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EDNA

#739

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
68,962
About
1 in 4,380
This common or more
65.4%
Who bears it

Of the 68,962 people named Edna, 53.8% reported their origin as White, 20.2% as Black and 17.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Edna peaked in 1918, when 8,730 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
8,730
In 2025*
72 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 296,158 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Edna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #23. The largest share of babies named Edna, 51.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#4611,066
1890s#2524,144
1900s#2329,957
1910s#3867,106
1920s#6468,877
1930s#11637,172
1940s#22524,790
1950s#39015,442
1960s#6067,717
1970s#9603,416
1980s#1,3722,164
1990s#2,0071,576
2000s#2,8251,262
2010s#3,729930
2020s#3,823539
Before 190112.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2751.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.4%
Baby boom 1946–649.9%
Generation X 1965–802.2%
Millennials 1981–961%
Generation Z 1997–120.7%
2013 and later0.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Edna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Edna has been most common in Kentucky (2.5×), Mississippi (2.4×), and West Virginia (2.3×), and least common in Alaska (0.17×).

226,659 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Edna

#737 Aaliyah · 69,241#738 Meredith · 69,215#740 Reginald · 68,879#741 Dalton · 68,878

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Edna, most common first.

#9,246 Edina · 1,518#30,890 Edana · 280#33,752 Edma · 244#37,052 Edona · 212#39,915 Edena · 188

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