Ednah

Where Ednah comes from

Ednah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1824
    Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney born
    American suffragist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1991
    Ednah Kurgat born
    American runner
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ednah Kurgat · American runner, born 1991
  • Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney · American suffragist, 1824–1904
  • Ednah Robinson Aiken · American author, playwright, novelist, 1872–1960

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.