Meaning not yet researched.
Ione: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 1917; #7,265 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ione in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,265 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #327.
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Ione: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #327 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 367 (1920).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Ione, making it the 7,265th most common girls’ name of the year, up 884 places from #8,149 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 13 girls named Ione in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #327, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 367, in 1920. For comparison, it was #5,194 in 2015 and #1,535 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ione in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 10,004 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,677 babies named Ione.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 161 US girls were named Ione; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ian (258,479 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Iyone and Yone are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Iyone (7), Yone (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ione in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,265 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,149 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,795 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,065 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,945 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,521 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,640 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,696 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,823 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,900 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,457 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,494 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,912 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,868 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,269 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,272 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,486 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,294 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,196 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,434 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,437 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,265 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,670 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,339 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,952 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,817 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,999 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,100 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,649 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,637 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,991 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,774 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,438 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,458 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,592 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,414 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,071 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1948 | 51 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1945 | 49 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1944 | 53 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1943 | 70 | #938 | — | — |
| 1942 | 68 | #952 | — | — |
| 1941 | 95 | #725 | — | — |
| 1940 | 91 | #730 | — | — |
| 1939 | 85 | #744 | — | — |
| 1938 | 127 | #608 | — | — |
| 1937 | 122 | #610 | — | — |
| 1936 | 132 | #573 | — | — |
| 1935 | 152 | #521 | — | — |
| 1934 | 150 | #528 | — | — |
| 1933 | 144 | #531 | — | — |
| 1932 | 156 | #525 | — | — |
| 1931 | 172 | #491 | — | — |
| 1930 | 178 | #501 | — | — |
| 1929 | 203 | #467 | — | — |
| 1928 | 210 | #473 | — | — |
| 1927 | 210 | #481 | — | — |
| 1926 | 257 | #430 | — | — |
| 1925 | 238 | #449 | — | — |
| 1924 | 263 | #431 | — | — |
| 1923 | 303 | #382 | — | — |
| 1922 | 291 | #381 | — | — |
| 1921 | 335 | #363 | — | — |
| 1920 | 367 | #342 | — | — |
| 1919 | 314 | #360 | — | — |
| 1918 | 356 | #348 | — | — |
| 1917 | 360 | #327 | — | — |
| 1916 | 344 | #327 | — | — |
| 1915 | 326 | #330 | — | — |
| 1914 | 226 | #351 | — | — |
| 1913 | 204 | #339 | — | — |
| 1912 | 178 | #345 | — | — |
| 1911 | 142 | #333 | — | — |
| 1910 | 111 | #369 | — | — |
| 1909 | 109 | #343 | — | — |
| 1908 | 116 | #330 | — | — |
| 1907 | 105 | #340 | — | — |
| 1906 | 89 | #353 | — | — |
| 1905 | 89 | #355 | — | — |
| 1904 | 90 | #345 | — | — |
| 1903 | 63 | #401 | — | — |
| 1902 | 74 | #370 | — | — |
| 1901 | 78 | #346 | — | — |
| 1900 | 68 | #403 | — | — |
| 1899 | 61 | #371 | — | — |
| 1898 | 64 | #389 | — | — |
| 1897 | 65 | #366 | — | — |
| 1896 | 64 | #363 | — | — |
| 1895 | 53 | #386 | — | — |
| 1894 | 59 | #364 | — | — |
| 1893 | 38 | #438 | — | — |
| 1892 | 43 | #407 | — | — |
| 1891 | 55 | #341 | — | — |
| 1890 | 36 | #427 | — | — |
| 1889 | 26 | #491 | — | — |
| 1888 | 28 | #473 | — | — |
| 1887 | 24 | #461 | — | — |
| 1886 | 18 | #533 | — | — |
| 1885 | 20 | #476 | — | — |
| 1884 | 20 | #455 | — | — |
| 1883 | 19 | #442 | — | — |
| 1882 | 15 | #479 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #558 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #605 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).