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Ona

#5,867 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Ona has been given to 8,031 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,867 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Ona, 2025

1 in 158,000

Ona over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ona: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ona means

Ona has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Ona

A separate documented entry treats Ona as a form of Anna. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Ona as a short form of Mariona. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Ona is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,939 girls were recorded with the name Ona between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 1916; its best national rank was #303 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,610 in 2020 to #5,867 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,902 in 2015 to #5,867 in 2025.

In the United States, 92 boys were recorded with the name Ona between 1885 and 1939. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,054 in 1885.

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 Ona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,867
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ona 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Onas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ona was born before 1925 — so the typical Ona is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,808
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (1,448).

Is Ona 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
−1,124
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−257
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,965
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1916 (185)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#303
1893

Where Ona is used

Across 1910–2025, Ona was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 50,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 8,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 8,333
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 8,333
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 11,111
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 25,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 33,333

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

Ona around the world

Where Ona 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
    2005–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #2,031
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #3,144
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1945–1960
    #432
    in 1960

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.

Notable people named Ona

People whose public names include Ona, 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.

Ona in other languages

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

OanaÒnia

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

Ona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,867
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 257
Best rank ever
#303
1893
Peak year
1916
185 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,939
Count in 2025
21

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,054
1885
Peak year
1915
12 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
1939
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ona

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

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Names with a curve like Ona

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

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Sibling names for Ona

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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