Erna (first name)
Erna is a female given name that was very popular in German-speaking countries around 1900. With the advent of the Klein-Erna jokes , the name's popularity declined significantly. Today it rarely occurs.
Name days
Origin and meaning
Erna is a short form of Ernestine and goes back to the male first name Ernst . This comes from Old High German and means seriousness, determination (in battle) .
Other forms
- Erni
- Ernschen
- Ernchen
- Ernalein
- En
Well-known namesake
- Erna Baumbauer (1919–2010), German acting agent
- Erna Berger (1900–1990), German chamber singer (coloratura soprano)
- Erna Brell , German table tennis player
- Erna von Dobschütz (1876–1963), German portrait painter
- Erna Dorn (1911–1953), victim of the GDR justice system
- Erna Eifler (1908–1944), German resistance fighter
- Erna Fentsch (1909–1997), German actress
- Erna Haffner (1912–1989), German actress
- Erna Lazarus (1903-2006), American screenwriter
- Erna Lechner (* 1940), Bavarian farmers' association official
- Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), German photographer
- Erna Lugebiel (1898–1984), German resistance fighter
- Erna Morena (1885–1962), German actress
- Erna Nissen, person to whom the little Erna jokes go back, see Klein Erna
- Erna Nitter (1888–1986), German actress
- Erna Pinner (1890–1987), German draftsman, puppet artist, writer and scientist
- Erna Putz (* 1946), Austrian theologian
- Erna Raupach-Petersen (1904–1997), German folk actress
- Erna Roder (1916–2007), German painter
- Erna Sack (1898–1972), German chamber singer (coloratura soprano)
- Erna Scheffler (1893–1983), German lawyer
- Erna Schillig (1900–1993), Swiss painter
- Erna Schlüter (1904–1969), German chamber singer (soprano)
- Erna Sellmer (1905–1983), German actress
- Erna Solberg (* 1961), Norwegian politician
- Erna Spoorenberg (1926–2004), Dutch soprano
- Erna Strube, known as Joy Fleming (1944-2017), German jazz, blues and pop singer
- Erna Walter (1893–1992), German botanist
- Erna Waßmer (1933-2016), German folk actress