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Fonda

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Fonda has been given to 4,113 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Fonda, 1997

1 in 725,000

Fonda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fonda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fonda means

Fonda is a given name.

The naming story behind Fonda

Wikidata records Fonda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98651574, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,113 girls were recorded with the name Fonda between 1910 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 181 in 1963; its best national rank was #766 in 1963.

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.

How common is Fonda?

Fonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fonda 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fondas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fonda was born before 1960 — so the typical Fonda is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (1,331).

Is Fonda 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
0%
Peak was 1963 (181)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#766
1963

Spellings of Fonda

Fonda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 41.0% against Fonda's 0.12%.

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.

Where Fonda is used

Across 1910–2025, Fonda was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 79,417 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 20,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 25,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fonda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Fonda

People whose public names include Fonda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fonda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#766
1963
Peak year
1963
181 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
4,113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fonda

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

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Names with a curve like Fonda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fonda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Fonda

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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