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Vonetta

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Vonetta has been given to 870 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1973, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Vonetta, 1994

1 in 619,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vonetta: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Vonetta means

Vonetta is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vonetta is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Vonetta is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 870 girls were recorded with the name Vonetta between 1921 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 161 in 1973; its best national rank was #819 in 1973.

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 Vonetta?

Vonetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 619,000
6 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
429,287 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vonetta 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 1994 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 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vonetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vonettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vonetta was born before 1975 — so the typical Vonetta is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
74.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
839
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 74.6% of all recorded uses (649).

Is Vonetta 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 1973 (161)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
62.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#819
1973

Spellings of Vonetta

Vonetta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 61.2% against Vonetta's 0.30%.

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 Vonetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Vonetta was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 326,026 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

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

Vonetta around the world

Where Vonetta 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
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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

Vonetta 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
#819
1973
Peak year
1973
161 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
870
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vonetta

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

VonnettaLovettaRenattaLarettaAriettaLucettaVoncileLouettaVonnieAlettaColettaArlettaMaryettaRhettaVonceilVondellBerettaVoncilleBrigittaDanettaMarettaVonzettaJonettaVenetta

Sibling names for Vonetta

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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