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Wenona

Girls' name

Firstborn daughter, through Winona

Wenona has been given to 1,168 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1975, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Wenona, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wenona: meaning, origin, and history

Firstborn daughter, through Winona

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wenona means

Wenona belongs to the name family reached through Wenona → Winona. Its meaning is “firstborn daughter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wenona is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Winona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,168 girls were recorded with the name Wenona between 1907 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,339 in 1921.

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 Wenona?

Wenona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wenona 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wenona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wenonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wenona was born before 1959 — so the typical Wenona is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
670
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1970s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (391).

Is Wenona 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 1975 (52)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,339
1921

Spellings of Wenona

Wenona is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 37.7% against Wenona'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 Wenona is used

Across 1910–2025, Wenona was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 805,631 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Wenona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wenona around the world

Where Wenona 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
    1965–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Wenona 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
#1,339
1921
Peak year
1975
52 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,168
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wenona

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

WendolynCleonaWendeeWendieSedonaDeonaElonaWendaWendeKeyonaTeonaSiyonaAvionaKionaHalonaWynonaDaytonaSimonaVeronaAlyonaVionaRemonaRionaZiona

Sibling names for Wenona

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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