Erna is a girl's name of German origin meaning “serious, earnest and brisk, vigorous, hale.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Erna belongs to the German tradition. Its meaning — “serious, earnest and brisk, vigorous, hale” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Erna first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #256 in 1898, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 9,060 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Erna means “serious, earnest and brisk, vigorous, hale” in its German roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Erna is a girl name.
Erna comes from the German tradition.
Erna first appears in US records in 1880. Its best-ever ranking was #256 in 1898, and 0 babies were given the name in 2024.
Erna is pronounced /ˈæːr.nɑ/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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