Edna

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) English form of Eithne ^[1]

2) Hebrew עֶדְנָה (edna) = 'rejuvenation, pleasure' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

3) Hebrew name of unknown meaning, maybe related to Adina ^[4]

Related Names

Adna	♀
Edna	♀
Eðna	♀
Ednar	♂

See also Ena

Name Days

Faroe Islands

31 October

Norway

31 October

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Edna
Accusative:	Ednu
Dative:	Ednu
Genitive:	Ednu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Edna
Accusative:	Ednu
Dative:	Ednu
Genitive:	Ednu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1888 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		277	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		269	461	0	0
Norway[7]		156	442	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	293	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Edna.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi