Given name & surname
Etna
Etna is used as a given name and a surname. Etna is connected with Eithne.
Original IrishEithne
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Irish use, Etna is used as a form of Eithne.
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
Etna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 681
- 0 boys · 681 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,633 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,633 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 322 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.
Etna’s family of names
In Irish usage, Etna has a conventional equivalent in the German form Edna. Etna is an English adaptation of Eithne. In English usage, Etna was borrowed from the Irish form Eithne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Etna has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Irish roots to each of them.
Irishwhere Etna comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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