Given name
Ednah
“one who brings pleasure; a delight”
Ednah is a variant of Edna. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who brings pleasure; a delight.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ednah is a variant of Edna. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who brings pleasure; a delight.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ednah is a variant of Edna. An origin associated with Edna is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ednah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 0 boys · 75 girls
- Most popular year
- 1898
- 9 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 6 in 1920. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1898.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ednah’s family of names
In English usage, Ednah has a related form in Edna. In English usage, Ednah has a conventional equivalent in the German form Edna.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Ednah
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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