Edina
Edina is a name with a single cultural origin: Hungarian.
- Hungarian
Meaning & Origin of Edina
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Edina is a name with a single cultural origin: Hungarian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hungarian
The Story of Edina
Edina first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1949, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1975: 19 births, good for #3,514 nationwide. About 26% of every Edina on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Edina last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 507 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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About the name Edina
Edina is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1949 and has accumulated 507 births in the dataset. Edina's peak popularity came in 1975 when it ranked #3,514. Use the chart and map above to compare Edina's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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