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Rona

Girls' name

The Crown, through Corona

Rona has been given to 5,444 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1966, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Rona, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rona: meaning, origin, and history

The Crown, through Corona

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rona means

Rona belongs to the name family reached through Rona → Corona. Its meaning is “The Crown”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rona is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Corona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,444 girls were recorded with the name Rona between 1896 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 153 in 1966; its best national rank was #779 in 1942.

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 Rona?

Rona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rona 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ronas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rona was born before 1960 — so the typical Rona is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,892
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (1,333).

Is Rona 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (153)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#779
1942

Spellings of Rona

Rona is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.9% against Rona's 0.08%.

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 Rona is used

Across 1910–2025, Rona was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 50,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2Maryland1 in 20,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 33,333
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 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. Rona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rona around the world

Where Rona 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1968–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1970–2025
    #4,077
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1944–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Notable people named Rona

People whose public names include Rona, 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.

Rona in other languages

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

RomaRhonaRoniaRonjaRonnaRonya

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

Rona 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
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Best rank ever
#779
1942
Peak year
1966
153 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,444
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rona

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

RoniRonniZonaRonnieLonaIonaRonnaOonaNonaOnaJonaIlonaDonaKeonaAlonaSonaTonaRomonaVeronaSimonaRonaldWynonaKionaKeyona

Names with a curve like Rona

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

JoellenBarbraMartyMaryjoCherrieCarleenSuzannGerriEvonnePennieDorindaShiela

Sibling names for Rona

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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