Edna is a Hebrew name meaning "pleasure" or "delight", from the same root as Eden; it appears in the Book of Tobit as the wife of Raguel. The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay carried it in the 1920s, when Edna was a top 20 name in the United States, and Edna Mode in The Incredibles gave it a comic sparkle. Edna ranked number 1460 in 2000, peaked this century at number 1296 in 2001 and has held around number 2000 to 2400 for a decade, ranking number 2463 in 2025 with 72 girls.