Entry № 2746 · Hebrew origin

Edna Edna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ED-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Delight (Tobit apocrypha)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew apocrypha)

A name that means "delight (tobit apocrypha)".

Edna (עֶדְנָה) means "delight" or "pleasure" in Hebrew — etymologically related to Eden. In the Book of Tobit (apocrypha), Edna was Raguel's wife and mother of Sarah — who became Tobias's wife.

Delight. Sarah's mother in the Book of Tobit.

The name in its native script.

עֶדְנָה
Transliteration
ʿEḏnāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛd.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Edna stands.

Edna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ednas before her.

Real people
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American Pulitzer poet.
1892 – 1950
Edna Ferber
American Pulitzer novelist.
1885 – 1968
In fiction
Edna Pontellier
Heroine of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
1899
Edna Mode
Designer in The Incredibles.
2004

Names connected to Edna.

The number behind Edna.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Edna reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.