Lono

Boys' name

News

Lono has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2018. 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 2018, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lono, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lono: meaning, origin, and history

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Hawaiian

What Lono means

Lono means “news”, associated with lono.

Origin, language, and formation

Lono is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Lono is pronounced /ˈlo.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Lono between 2018 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #13,344 in 2019.

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 Lono?

Lono 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 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 349,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lono 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 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lono. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lono was born before 2019 — so the typical Lono is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Lono 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 2018 (5)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #13,344; 2019

Spellings of Lono

Lono is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 18.3% against Lono's <0.01%.

Leo18.3%259,988
Tony17.7%251,595
Leon12.8%182,638
Jon11.8%168,142
Don11.8%167,632
Lynn3.7%52,391
Lane3.3%47,562
Alonzo3.2%45,955

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.

Lono 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: #13,344; 2019
Peak year: 2018; 5 that year
First recorded: 2018
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lono

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

Lona Lone Lonis Lonni Lones Longin Lonel Lonne Lonas Pono Londo Lonzel Lonan Loni Kono Londale Londin Lonzy Lonard Lonnel Lonald Lonniel Lonn Cono

Sibling names for Lono

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

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Emberly Avah Jemma

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Merrick Bilal Mordechai Zaid Brecken Joziah

Explore around Lono

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