Edna (given name)

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| gender = Feminine

| meaning = pleasure, delight

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| language = Hebrew

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| alternative spelling = Ednah

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Edna ({{langx|he|עֶדְנָה}}) is a feminine given name originating from several languages. In Hebrew, it means "pleasure, delight". The name appears in the Biblical apocryphal Book of Tobit as the mother of Sarah and stepmother of Tobias. In Ireland, the name has been used as an Anglicized form of the Irish name Eithne. It is etymologically related to the name Eden. It has been in use in the Anglosphere since the 1600s, when it was often spelled Ednah.{{cite book |last1=Hanks|first1= Patrick| last2=Hardcastle|first2=Kate |last3=Hodges| first3=Flavia| author-link= |date= 2006|title= Oxford Dictionary of First Names|url= |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=64|isbn= 0-19-861060-2}} The name was particularly well-used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but has since declined in use.

People with the given name Edna

Edna Agravante (born 1980), Filipina former international footballer
Edna Alexander (died 1913), Canadian-born soprano
Edna Belle Alexander (1892–1972), American composer
Edna Alford (born 1947), Canadian author and illustrator
Edna Allyn (1861–1927), American librarian
Edna P. Amidon (1895–1982), American educator and federal official
Edna Anderson (1922–2019), Canadian politician
Edna Andrade (1917–2008), American abstract artist
Edna Andrews, American academic
Edna Anhalt (1914–1987), American screenwriter, television writer, and film producer
Edna Arbel (born 1944), Israeli lawyer and former Israeli Supreme Court Justice
Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard (1886–1971), American theosopher
Edna Barker (1936–2019), English cricketer
Edna Yolani Batres (born 1967), Honduran politician
Theodora Bean (born Edna Belle Bean; 1871–1926), American journalist and suffragist
Edna Beard (1877–1928), American politician
Edna Gertrude Beasley (1892–1955), American writer and memoirist
Edna Beilenson (1909–1981), American typographer, fine press printer, typesetter, book designer, cook book author, and publisher
Edna Béjarano (born 1951), Israeli singer
Edna Bessell (born 1946), English former international lawn bowler
Edna Best (1900–1974), British actress
Edna Libby Beutenmüller (1872–1934), American scientific illustrator
Jean Edna Blackburn (1919–2001), Australian educationalist
Edna Lee Booker (1897–1994), American journalist
Edna A. Boorady (1921–2008), American lawyer and diplomat
Edna Ermyntrude Bourne, Barbadan politician
Edna Bourque (1915–2012), Canadian volunteer
Edna Buchanan (born 1938), American journalist and mystery novelist
Edna Brown (1940–2022), American politician
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; born 1932), American actress
Edna Butfield, British speech and language therapist
Edna Carrillo (born 1991), Mexican judoka
Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957), American magazine
Edna Chepngeno (born 1977), Kenyan former volleyball player
Edna Child (1922–2023), British diver and Olympian
Edna Christofferson (1886–1945), American aviator, markswoman, and radiographer
Edna Cintrón (1954–2001), American office worker who died in the September 11 attacks
Edna Cisneros (1930–2013), American lawyer
Edna Sarah Cole (1855–1950), American Presbyterian Church missionary in Siam (now Thailand)
Edna Coll (1906–2002), Puerto Rican educator and author
Edna Gallmon Cooke (1917–1967), American gospel singer and recording artist
Edna Mae Cooper (1900–1986), American silent film actress
Edna Cukierman, Mexican biochemist and academic
Edna Cain Daniel (1875–1957), American journalist and publisher
Edna Meade Colson (1888–1985), American educator
Edna Davey (1909–2000), Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympian
Edna Davies (1905–1969), British stage and film actress
Edna Davis (1907–1989), Australian entertainer and performer, and notorious vexatious litigant.
Edna de Lima (1879–1968), American lyric soprano singer and translator
Edna Deakin (1871–1946), American designer
Edna Deane (1905–1995), English ballroom dancer, choreographer and author
Edna DeVries (born 1941), American politician
Edna Reed DeWees (1921–2009), American law enforcement officer
Edna Díaz (born 1985), Mexican taekwondo practitioner, psychologist and politician
Edna Diefenbaker (1899–1951), first wife of the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker
Edna Nell Doig (1915–1988), Australian army matron-in-chief
Edna Doré (1922–2014), British actress
Edna Duge (1902–1985), American educator
Edna Dummerth (1924–2017), American baseball player
Edna Mae Durbin (1921–2013), Canadian-born American singer and actress known professionally as Deanna Durbin
Edna Park Edwards (c. 1895–1967), American screen actress
Edna Eicke (1919–1979), American illustrator
Edna Elias (born c. 1955), Canadian politician
Edna Elliott-Horton (1904–1994), Sierra Leonan academic and activist
Edna L. Emme (1899–1995), American cosmetologist
Edna H. Fawcett (1879–1960), American botanist
Edna Ferber (1885–1968), American novelist
Edna Foa (born 1937), Israeli academic
Edna Lois Foley (1878–1943), American nurse
Edna Foster (1900–?), American actress
Edna Giles Fuller (1874–1952), American politician
Edna Garabedian, American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director
Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970), American suffragist and reformer
Edna Ginesi (1902–2000), British painter
Edna Gladney (1886–1961), American children's rights activist
Edna Gleason (1886–1963), American pharmacist and fair trade activist
Edna Goodrich (1883–1971), American actress and author
Edna Golandsky, American classical music pianist and educator
Edna Griffin (1909–2000), American civil rights activist
Edna Gross (1910–1999), British gymnast and Olympian
Edna Grossman, German-born American mathematician
Edna Gundersen, American journalist
Edna Guy (1907–1982), American modern dance pioneer
Edna Clarke Hall (1879–1979), English a watercolour artist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman
Edna Mae Harris (1914–1987), American actress and singer
Eden Hartford (born Edna Higgins; 1930–1983), American film actress
Edna Haviland (1896–1981), Canadian industrial chemist
Edna Healey (1918–2010), British writer, lecturer and filmmaker
Edna Frances Heidbreder (1890–1985), American philosopher and psychologist
Edna Miller Hennessee (1919–2011), American businesswoman
Edna Hibbard (1894–1942), American stage and motion picture actress
Edna Hicks (c. 1891 or 1895–1925), American blues singer and musician
Edna Hibel (1917–2014), American artist
Edna Holland (1895–1982), American actress
Edna Wallace Hopper (1872–1959), American stage and silent film actress
Edna Howland (1886–1964), American vaudeville artist
Edna Hughes (1916–1990), English competitive swimmer and Olympian
Edna Mayne Hull (1905–1975), Canadian science fiction writer
Jane Edna Hunter (1882–1971), American social worker
Edna Hunter (1876–1920), American stage and silent film actress
Edna Iles (1905–2003), English classical pianist
Edna Imade (born 2000), Nigerian professional footballer
Edna Indermaur (1892–1985), American contralto
Edna Adan Ismail (Born 1937), Somali foreign Minister, Midwife, FGM abolitionist and former First first lady of Somaliland
Edna Iturralde (born 1948), Ecuadorian author
Edna Branch Jackson (born 1944), American politician
Edna Burke Jackson (1911–2004), American educator and wtiter
Edna Davis Jackson (born 1950), American Tlingit artist
Edna Jaques (1891–1978), Canadian poet
Edna Jessop (1926–2007), Australian drover
Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934), American suffragist
Edna Keeley (1884–1961), American stage and silent film actress
Ruth Edna Kelley (1893–1982), American librarian and writer
Edna F. Kelly (1906–1997), American politician
Edna Kenton (1876–1954), American writer and literary critic
Edna Kiplagat (born 1979), Kenyan professional long-distance runner
Edna Kramer (1902–1984), American mathematician
Edna Moscelyne Larkin (1925–2012), American ballerina
Edna Lawrence 1916–2015), American modelnand filmmactress
Edna Leedom (1896–1937), American actress
Edna Lewis (1916–2006), African-American chef
Edna Blanchard Lewis (876–1933), American insurance broker
Edna Loftus (1891–1916), British actress
Edna Longley (born 1940), Irish literary critic and cultural commentator
Edna Luby (1884–1928), American actress and comedian
Edna Lumb (1931–1992), British artist
Edna Machirori, Zimbabwean journalist
Edna Ahgeak MacLean (born 1944), American Iñupiaq academic administrator, linguist, anthropologist and educator from Alaska,
Edna Madzongwe (born 1943), Zimbabwean politician
Edna Maison (1892–1946), American silent film actress
Edna Malone (1899–?), Canadian dancer
Edna Manley (1900–1987), Jamaican sculptor
Edna Mann (1926–1985), British painter
Edna Manning (born 1942), American educator
Edna Marion (1906–1957), American silent film actress
Edna Maskell (1928–2018), Rhodesian hurdler
Edna May (1878–1948), American actress and singer
Edna Mayo (1895–1970), American silent film actress
Edna Mazia (1949–2023), Israeli playwright, author, screenwriter, and director
Edna McClure (c. 1888–?), American stage actress
Edna McGriff (1935–1980), American rhythm and blues singer and pianist
Edna Rankin McKinnon (1893–1978), American social activist for birth control
Edna L. McRae (1901–1990), American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
Edna Greene Medford, American academic
Edna Merey-Apinda (born 1976), Gabonese writer
Edna Zyl Modie (1886–1991), American painter
Edna Molewa (1957–2018), South African politician
Edna Morton (1894–1980), American actress
Edna Mosher (1878–1972), Canadian entomologist and lepidopterist
Edna Mosley (1899–1954), British architect
Edna Munsey (1891–1951), American stage actress
Edna Murphey, American businesswoman
Edna Murphy (1899–1974), American silent film actress
Edna Murray (1898–1966), American criminal
Edna Nahshon, American academic
Edna Neillis (1953–2015), Scottish women's association football player
Dame Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish writer
Evi Edna Ogholi (born 1966), Nigerian reggae musician
Edna May Oliver (1883–1942), American stage and film actress
Edna O'Shaughnessy (1924–2022), South African-born British Kleinian psychoanalyst
Edna Owen (1859–1936), American suffragist
Edna Pahewa (born 1954), New Zealand weaver
Edna Paisano (1948–2014), American Nez Perce and Laguna Pueblo demographer and statistician
Edna Parker (1893–2008), American supercentenarian
Edna G. Parker (1930–1996), American judge
Edna Payne] (1891–1953), American silent movie actress
Edna Pearce (1906–1995), New Zealand kindergarten teacher and director, policewoman, and internment camp supervisor
Edna Pendleton (1887–1940), American silent film actress
Edna Pengelly (1874–1959), Canadian-born New Zealand teacher, civilian and military nurse, matron
Edna Phillips (1907–2003), American harpist
Edna Phillips (c. 1922–1992), British murder victim
Edna P. Plumstead (1903–1989), South African palaeobotanist
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923), American poet
Edna Ann "Annie" Proulx (born 1935), American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
Edna Purdie (1894–1968), British academic
Edna Purviance (1895–1958), American actress
Edna Moga Ramminger, Brazilian theologian and pastor
Edna Reindel (1894–1990), American artist
Edna Richardson (born 1949), American singer, dancer and actress
Edna G. Riley (1880–1962), American screenwriter, author, activist, and assistant film director
Edna Rose Ritchings (1925–2017), Canadian symbolic maintainer of the International Peace Mission religious movement
Edna Mae Robinson (1915–2002), American dancer, actress, and activist
Edna Roper (1913–1986), Australian politician
Edna Ryan (activist)|Edna Ryan (née Nelson)]] (1904–1997), Australian feminist and labor rights activist
Edna May Ryan (born 1946), New Zealand former cricketer
Edna Sanchez, Filipina politician
Edna Santini (born 1992), Brazilian rugby union and sevens player
Edna Dee Woolford Saunders (1880–1963), American music producer and civic leader
Edna Savage (1936–2000), British pop singer
Edna Sayers (1912–1996), Australian cyclist
Edna Schechtman (1948–2022), Israeli statistician
Edna Scheer (1926–2000), American baseball player
Edna Schmidt (1969–2021), American journalist
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet and playwright
Edna May Best Sexton (1880–1923), Canadian social activist and war worker
Edna Shavit (1935–2015), Israeli academic
Edna Shaw (1891–1974), Australian hospital matron, nurse, and midwife
Edna Sheen (1944–2012), American makeup artist
Edna Shemesh (born 1953), Israeli author and former journalist
Edna Cooke Shoemaker (1889–1975), American artist and illustrator
Edna Wilma Simons (1895–1954), American vaudeville dancer and light opera star
Rosemary Edna Sinclair (born 1936), Australian activist and beauty pageant titleholder
Edna Skinner (1921–2003), American film and television actress
Edna Solodar (1930–2024), Israeli politician
Edna May Sperl (1899–1957), American silent film actress
Edna May Spooner (1873–1953), American actress, playwright, and vaudeville performer.
Dorothy Squires (born Edna May Squires; 1915–1998), Welsh singer
Edna Staebler (1906–2006), Canadian writer and literary journalist
Edna Lamprey Stantial (1897–1985), American suffragistvand archivist
Edna Stern (born 1977), Belgian-Israeli pianist
Edna Stillwell (1915–1982), American comedian and screenwriter
Edna Stoddart (1888–1966), American painter and diarist
Edna Sugathapala (1946–2018), Sri Lankan actress
Edna Taçon (1905–1980), American-born Canadian artist
Edna Telford (1899–?), American politician
Edna Tepava (1955–2024), French model and beauty pageant competitor
Edna Thomas, Papua New Guinean former footballer and current manager
Edna Harker Thomas (1881–1942), American Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader
Edna Lewis Thomas (1885–1974), American stage actress
Edna Tichenor (1901–1965), American actress
Beatrice Edna Tucker (c. 1897–1984), American obstetrician and gynecologist
Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1867–1952), American author
Edna Westbrook Trigg (1868–1946), American educator and social worker
Edna W. Underwood (1873–1961), American author, poet, and translator
Aunt Susan, born Edna Vance (1893–1972), American journalist and radio personality
Edna Veiga (born 1964), Brazilian retired volleyball player
Edna Walling (1896–1973), Australian landscape designer
Edna Watson (1895–1976), Bermudan politician
Edna White (1892–1992), American trumpet soloist, chamber musician, vaudeville performer, and composer
Edna Noble White (1879–1954), American educator
Edna Gardner Whyte (1902–1992), American aviator
Edna Wildey (1882–1970), American tennis player
Edna Mae Wilson (1880–1960), American silent film actress
Edna Wilson-Mosley (1925–2014), American politician, civil rights activist, and educator
Edna May Wonacott (1932–2022), American child actress
Edna Wright (1945–2020), American singer
Edna Yost (1889–1971), American writer