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Etna

#15,629 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly grain, kernel, through Eithne

Etna has been given to 681 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #15,629 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Etna, 2025

1 in 663,000

Etna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Etna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly grain, kernel, through Eithne

Irish

What Etna means

Etna belongs to the name family reached through Etna → Eithne → Eithne. Its meaning is “grain, kernel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Etna is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Etna comes through Irish Eithne.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eithne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Etna is pronounced /ˈɛtnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 681 girls were recorded with the name Etna between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1923; its best national rank was #540 in 1882.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Etna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,629
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Etna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Etna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Etnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Etna was born before 1915 — so the typical Etna is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.73%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Etna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 1923 (26)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#540
1882

Spellings of Etna

Etna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.0% against Etna's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Etna is used

Across 1910–2025, Etna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 877,208 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Etna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Etna around the world

Where Etna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    2019–2022
    #7,502
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Etna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#540
1882
Peak year
1923
26 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
681
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Etna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GretnaAriatnaEtnieChristnaAetnaKristnaBrittna

Sibling names for Etna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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