Lone

Boys' name

Short form of Abelone

Lone has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1882, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lone, 1928

1 in 452,000

Lone over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lone: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Abelone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lone means

Lone is a short form of Abelone.

Origin, language, and formation

Lone is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abelone and Apollonia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Lone between 1882 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1882; its best national rank was #906 in 1882.

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 Lone?

Lone had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928: 1 in 452,000; 5 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only: 1 in 222,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 313,422 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lone sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 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 313,422 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lones were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lone was born before 1882 — so the typical Lone is around 143 today.

Median birth year: 1882; About 143 years old
Biggest decade: 1880s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 45.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1880s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Lone 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1882 (6)
Years since peak: 143; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #906; 1882

Spellings of Lone

Lone is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 16.1% against Lone's <0.01%.

Jose16.1%592,512
Joe12.3%453,255
Luke8.8%323,020
Tony6.8%251,595
Lee6.4%233,627
Leon5.0%182,638
Jon4.6%168,142
Don4.6%167,632

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.

Lone around the world

Where Lone 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.

Norway
1880–2025
#219
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Lone by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #906; 1882
Peak year: 1882; 6 that year
First recorded: 1882
Last recorded: 1928
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lone

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

Lono Lona Lones Lonis Lonni Lonel Londo Lonzel Longin Rone Jone Lonne Lonas Tione Londin Lonan Loni Lonard Dwone Trone Londale Slone Tirone Tone

Sibling names for Lone

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

For a sister

Maud Bess Maude Meta Lulu Hulda Golda Era

For a brother

Garfield Grover Will Dewey Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield

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