Name: Edna
Gender: Female
Usage: Edna, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Edna are in general originating from Denmark, France, Israel, Kenya, Macedonia, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Edna across the world, see Eithne.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Edna is: Kernel, Spirit renewed.
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Numerology of the first name Edna: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Edna is ranked on the 1,148th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 445500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.007% of the population. The name Edna has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Edna for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Edna (Hebrew: עֶדְנָה) is a female given name originating from several languages. In Hebrew, it means "pleasure". Various women named Edna are referenced in the Old Testament apocryphal books Jubilees (where the wives of Enoch, Methuselah, and Terah are all so named) and Tobit. The name Edna may also be an Anglicized form of the Irish and Scottish name Eithne, meaning "kernel" in Gaelic. This was a very popular girl's name in the United States in the early 20th century, but has since become unfashionable. It is also a very rare surname. Edna, as derived from Hebrew, is closely related etymologically to the name Eden.
Irish and English: in Ireland an Anglicized form of Eithne, and probably of this origin in England too. However, the name also occurs in the Bible, 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 rejuvenation, pleasure, or delight, and if so it is connected with the name of the Garden of Eden. It does not occur in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, although the variants 'eden and 'adnah occur as male names. The earliest known uses of the given name in England are in the 18th century, when it was probably imported from Ireland, rather than taken from the Bible.
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