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Zona

#17,270 in 2025Girls' name

Girdle, belt

Zona has been given to 4,567 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #17,270 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Zona, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zona: meaning, origin, and history

Girdle, belt

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zona means

Zona means “girdle, belt”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zona is used in Various.

Origin, language, and formation

Zona is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,567 girls were recorded with the name Zona between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1916; its best national rank was #423 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,946 in 2020 to #17,270 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #16,398 in 2015 to #17,270 in 2025.

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 Zona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,270
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zona 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zona was born before 1928 — so the typical Zona is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
918
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (841).

Is Zona 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
−6,156
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8,324
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−872
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 1916 (107)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#423
1887

Spellings of Zona

Zona is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 15.4% against Zona'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 Zona is used

Across 1910–2025, Zona was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 117,995 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 20,000
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Zona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zona around the world

Where Zona 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
    1998–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #446
    in 1962

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Zona

People whose public names include Zona, 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.

Zona in other languages

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

Sona

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

Zona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,270
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8,324
Best rank ever
#423
1887
Peak year
1916
107 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,567
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Zona

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

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Names with a curve like Zona

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

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Sibling names for Zona

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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