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Lonna

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lonna has been given to 3,351 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1947, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Lonna, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lonna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lonna means

Lonna is a given name.

The naming story behind Lonna

Wikidata records Lonna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q129846890, 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, 3,351 girls were recorded with the name Lonna between 1916 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1947; its best national rank was #746 in 1940.

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 Lonna?

Lonna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lonna 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lonna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lonna was born before 1961 — so the typical Lonna is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (789).

Is Lonna 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 1947 (91)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#746
1940

Spellings of Lonna

Lonna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 27.0% against Lonna's 0.06%.

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 Lonna is used

Across 1910–2025, Lonna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 101,075 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 50,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

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

Lonna in other languages

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

LonaLeona

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

Lonna 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
#746
1940
Peak year
1947
91 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
3,351
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lonna

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

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Names with a curve like Lonna

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

SheronSuzannGarySherilynDreamaDarnellSandieJerilynMartyKarrenKathleneSusann

Sibling names for Lonna

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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