[name_f]Edna[/name_f]. [name_m]How[/name_m] old is the name to you? Honestly, Enid is a Berry favorite, so why shouldn’t this name get more recognition? ![]()
Pretty darn old…revitalized a bit if I think about the full name [name_f]Edna[/name_f] St [name_m]Vincent[/name_m] [name_f]Millay[/name_f].
Yeah, [name_f]Edna[/name_f] is pretty dated to me. Up there with [name_f]Gertrude[/name_f] and [name_f]Doris[/name_f].
I really like [name_f]Edna[/name_f], but my husband is a huge [name_m]Simpson[/name_m]'s fan, and [name_f]Edna[/name_f] Krabappel makes it pretty impossible for me to ever really consider it. I think this would be the most common association with the name these days.
I think of Dame [name_f]Edna[/name_f] and of [name_f]Edna[/name_f] Krabappel. It just feels really fusty to me, maybe because of the “ed” syllable in the front. FWIW, I’m not big on [name_f]Enid[/name_f] or [name_f]Ethel[/name_f], so maybe I just don’t have the right taste for it (though I don’t mind [name_f]Edith[/name_f]).
Perhaps [name_f]Edith[/name_f] is getting the Downton [name_u]Abbey[/name_u] love? I have an aunt [name_f]Edna[/name_f] so I thought the peak was more recent than it in fact was. [name_m]Just[/name_m] my own bias though because they both peaked in 1918 (in the US) By 100 year rule logic they should both be about ready to come back but neither really has much on the SSA list…yet. So maybe the [name_u]Berry[/name_u] love for [name_f]Edith[/name_f] is from hearing it on Downton [name_u]Abbey[/name_u] and searching it?
I dislike it. Then again, I dislike [name_f]Enid[/name_f], too.
[name_f]Edwina[/name_f] feels more usable.
I would say it’s still dated but not so much as names like [name_f]Myrtle[/name_f], [name_f]Maude[/name_f], e.t.c.
It sounds super dated to me.
[name_f]Edna[/name_f] is old to me. Now, [name_f]Enid[/name_f] I like. I think it’s so cute and I like the meaning very much.
I’m not crazy about it, haha, all I think of is my great-grandma’s 60-70 something roommate (ex roommate now) in the hospital a few weeks ago. I thought she was a bit young to be named [name_f]Edna[/name_f], if I’m honest…
If [name_f]Enid[/name_f], [name_f]Agnes[/name_f], and [name_f]Mabel[/name_f] are fine (and I love these old names), then so is [name_f]Edna[/name_f]. I say go for it! Not everyone will like it but the most important thing is that you do.
It’s not the dated feel of it I dislike, it’s the -dn- letter combination. [name_f]Enid[/name_f] is better because the D and N have another letter between them and somehow the sound is a little better with the N first and the D later (I’m also fond of [name_m]Edmund[/name_m]!)… The only names with this, -dn-, letter combo on my entire 2000 names long lists is [name_f]Ariadne[/name_f] and Caliadne and [name_f]Evadne[/name_f]/Euadne (and [name_f]Wednesday[/name_f]). If [name_f]Edna[/name_f] had some brighter sounds I might consider it, but it’s really the sound more than anything else that I can’t warm up to.
I find it so funny how no one (not even me) originally thought of the mum from Hairspray (played most recently by [name_m]John[/name_m] Travolta) 
Very dated, I think. In company with [name_f]Ethel[/name_f], [name_f]Enid[/name_f], [name_f]Agatha[/name_f], [name_f]Gertrude[/name_f], [name_f]Doris[/name_f].