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Edna (F)>

Edna (female)

Variants:Eithne (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Irish and English, from the Apocrypha, Book of Tobit. It would appear to be from the Hebrew "pleasure, delight", as in "The Garden of Eden".

In Ireland Edna is the Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic name Eithne.