Edna
[ˈɛd.nə]Meaning
means "pleasure" in Hebrew, from a root meaning "to delight"
Background Story
Edna is a Biblical Hebrew name meaning "pleasure", a derivative of the root ʿaḏan, "to delight". It appears in the Old Testament Apocrypha, in the Book of Tobit, as the wife of Raguel. It did not become popular until the second half of the 19th century, after it was used for the heroine of Augusta Jane Evans's 1866 novel St. Elmo, and it peaked around the turn of the century before falling off the American top 1000 list in 1992.
Temperament
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