Girl
Edna
Edna means "Delight" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1920s peak. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. 1918 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
HebrewDelight
HebrewPleasure
Births by decade
1900s
29,957
1910s
67,105
1920s
68,876
1930s
37,167
1940s
24,789
1950s
15,441
1960s
7,714
1970s
3,411
1980s
2,160
1990s
1,556
2000s
1,185
2010s
695
Peaked in the 1920s · 260,056 total U.S. births since 1900