# Erna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/erna/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,071 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11 / 9,060 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | 7,439 |
| 2002 | 11 | 9,040 |
| 2003 | 11 | 9,248 |
| 2004 | 10 | 10,154 |
| 2005 | 11 | 9,658 |
| 2006 | 7 | 14,041 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,378 |
| 2008 | 8 | 12,974 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,863 |
| 2010 | 9 | 11,565 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,589 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,384 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,906 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,625 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,017 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 5 | 1,525 |
| 1921 | 6 | 4,018 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |

## People named Erna

- Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician
- Erna Morena, German actress (1885-1962)
- Erna Siikavirta, Finnish keyboardist
- Erna Flegel, German nurse (1911–2006)
- Erna Fentsch, actress, screenwriter (1909–1997)
- Erna Spoorenberg, Dutch singer and opera singer (1926-2004)
- Erna Sellmer, German actress (1905-1983)
- Erna Schilling, German craftswoman, model, and partner of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1884-1945)
- Erna Juel-Hansen, Danish novelist and women's rights activist
- Erna Tauro, Finnish-Swedish composer
- Erni Mangold, Austrian actress (1927-2026)
- Françoise Brauner, French-Austrian pediatrician and child psychiatrist (1911-2000)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.