Edla
Edla was last recorded in 1949, when 5 babies were given it; 300 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edla mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Edla is “a female given name, equivalent to English Ethel or Adela, short form of compound names beginning with the Germanic element adal, edel “noble””
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,462, in 1949; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1914, the peak
Edla peaked in 1914, when 14 girls were given it, #1,837 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 | #5,462 | 2.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,733 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,795 | 5.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,543 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,508 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,735 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,766 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,326 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,006 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,658 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 11 | #2,990 | 9.0 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,727 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,013 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,482 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,964 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,858 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,427 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,599 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,711 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,291 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,837 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,701 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,725 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,573 | 12.0 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,420 | 28.3 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,451 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,966 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,485 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,473 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,306 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,558 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,648 | 21.0 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,319 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,513 | 23.5 |
| 1889 | 11 | #811 | 61.7 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,341 | 28.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,150 | 34.6 |
| 1882 | 8 | #694 | 74.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edla, and how old are they?
An estimated 15 Americans named Edla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 113 people named Edla (108 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 474 babies since 1880, Edla is the most given (63% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Edla
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Edla and names like it
- Compare Edla and EdiliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEdla peaked in 1914.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Edla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Edla.
- Names starting with EMost given first.