Given name
Edla
“a woman of the nobility”
Edla is a variant of Edlyn. One English interpretation is “a woman of the nobility.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Edla is a variant of Edlyn. One English interpretation is “a woman of the nobility.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Edla is a variant of Edlyn. An origin associated with Edlyn is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 300
- 0 boys · 300 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1949. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1914. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 113 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Edla’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Edla has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ethel. Edla has a related form in Edlyn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Edla
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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