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Anona

#13,345 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Anona has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #13,345 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Anona, 2025

1 in 553,000

Anona over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anona: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anona means

Anona is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anona is used in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Anona is used in English and Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Anona is pronounced /anˈɔna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 508 girls were recorded with the name Anona between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1925; its best national rank was #755 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anona?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,345
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anona was born before 1926 — so the typical Anona is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
76
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1920s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Anona rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 1925 (23)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#755
1904

Spellings of Anona

Anona is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 27.4% against Anona's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Anona around the world

Where Anona ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1971–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anona by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,345
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#755
1904
Peak year
1925
23 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
508
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Anona

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Anona

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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