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Ivona

Girls' name

Possibly yew, through Yvonne

Ivona has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 1995, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ivona, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ivona: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly yew, through Yvonne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ivona means

Ivona belongs to the name family reached through Ivona → Yvonne → Yvon → Yves. Its meaning is “yew”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ivona is used in Czech, Occitan, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yvonne, Yvon and Yves.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Ivona is pronounced [ˈɪvona].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 51 girls were recorded with the name Ivona between 1990 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #10,955 in 1995.

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 Ivona?

Ivona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ivona 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ivona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ivonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ivona was born before 2001 — so the typical Ivona is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Ivona 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 1995 (7)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,955
1995

Spellings of Ivona

Ivona is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 22.1% against Ivona's <0.01%.

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.

Ivona around the world

Where Ivona 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
    2018–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • France
    2007–2025
    #5,577
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1972–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ivona 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
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Best rank ever
#10,955
1995
Peak year
1995
7 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ivona

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

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Sibling names for Ivona

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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