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Vonda

Girls' name

Variant of Wanda

Vonda has been given to 10,323 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1965, with 1,093 recorded.

Babies named Vonda, 2008

1 in 786,000

Vonda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vonda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Wanda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vonda means

Vonda is a variant of Wanda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Vonda is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Vonda → Wanda → Wanda. The family’s proposed meaning is “documents, manuscripts and prints related to Wanda Chotomska”, recorded in Polish with the source elements Wanda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wanda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,312 girls were recorded with the name Vonda between 1899 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 1,093 in 1965; its best national rank was #261 in 1965.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Vonda between 1964 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1964; its best national rank was #4,023 in 1964.

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 Vonda?

Vonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vonda 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vondas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vonda was born before 1962 — so the typical Vonda is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,181
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (4,005).

Is Vonda 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 1965 (1,093)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#261
1965

Spellings of Vonda

Vonda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 41.1% against Vonda's 0.29%.

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 Vonda is used

Across 1910–2025, Vonda was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 21,720 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 4,545
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 5,263
  3. 3Indiana1 in 7,143
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 7,692
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 10,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 12,500
  7. 7Idaho1 in 12,500
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 12,500

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

Vonda around the world

Where Vonda 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.

  • South Australia
    1948–1975
    #448
    in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Vonda

People whose public names include Vonda, 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.

Vonda 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
#261
1965
Peak year
1965
1,093 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
10,312
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,023
1964
Peak year
1964
6 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vonda

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

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Names with a curve like Vonda

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

LolitaJacqulineNannetteBenitaMarybethDeanneDeannPennieKrisTenaLauriLesa

Sibling names for Vonda

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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