Erna
9,071 recorded births · active 1880–2021
Compare Erna →Living-age distribution
The median living Erna is 76. If you meet a Erna, there's about a 70% chance they're between 54 and 89 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Erna: 1898. Down 99% from peak.
Gender balance
Erna is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Erna ranks #2,979 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Name neighbors
People named Erna have popularity-curve siblings named:
Geographic fingerprint
Ernas are 1.7x more common in the Midwest than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Erna's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Erna's modeled peak was #391 in 1898 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Erna peaked in 1898 and now sits at roughly 1% of that peak, 127 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Erna isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Erna enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.