Erna

Where Erna comes from

Erna 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #256
    135 babies named Erna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1926
    Erna Schneider Hoover born
    American mathematician
  4. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #993.
  5. 1961
    Erna Solberg born
    Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Erna Solberg · Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021, born 1961
  • Erna Schneider Hoover · American mathematician, born 1926
  • Erna Morena · German actress, 1885–1962
  • Erna Berger · operatic singer, 1900–1990
  • Erna Bogen-Bogáti · Hungarian fencer, 1906–2002

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.