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Lona

#8,651 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lona has been given to 10,924 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,651 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Lona, 2025

1 in 276,000

Lona over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lona: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lona means

Lona is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lona is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,907 girls were recorded with the name Lona between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 1918; its best national rank was #299 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,513 in 2020 to #8,651 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,141 in 2015 to #8,651 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Lona between 1917 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,800 in 1917.

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 Lona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,651
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lona 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lona was born before 1934 — so the typical Lona is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,464
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1910s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (1,491).

Is Lona 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
−414
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,138
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,510
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.1%
Peak was 1918 (198)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#299
1890

Spellings of Lona

Lona is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 14.5% against Lona's 0.11%.

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 Lona is used

Across 1910–2025, Lona was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 31,365 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 4,762
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 7,143
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 12,500
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 14,286
  7. 7Virginia1 in 14,286
  8. 8Alabama1 in 16,667

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. Lona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lona around the world

Where Lona 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
    2003–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,014
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1990–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Lona

People whose public names include Lona, 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.

Lona in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lona. Linked forms have their own page here.

LoniLeonaLoenaLonnaLouna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,651
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,138
Best rank ever
#299
1890
Peak year
1918
198 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,907
Count in 2025
12

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,800
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lona

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

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Names with a curve like Lona

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

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Sibling names for Lona

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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