Meaning not yet researched.
Lona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #299 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #299 in 1890; #8,653 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,653 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #299.
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Lona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #299 in 1890 · most girls in one year: 198 (1918).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Lona, making it the 8,653rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 411 places from #8,242 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 13 girls named Lona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #299, reached in 1890. The most girls given the name in a single year was 198, in 1918. For comparison, it was #7,144 in 2015 and #759 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lona in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 28 babies with the name. In all, 10,924 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,497 babies named Lona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 153 US girls were named Lona; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leona (113,624 babies since 1880), Loni (3,878 babies since 1880), Lonna (3,351 babies since 1880) and Luna (87,834 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Loanna and Lloana 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 Danish, German and Norwegian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loanna (28), Lloana (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 Lona 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 | 12 | #8,653 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,242 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,772 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,159 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,309 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,517 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,911 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,281 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,116 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,458 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,144 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,309 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,703 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,044 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,135 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,795 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,222 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,225 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,041 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,784 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,659 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,206 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,107 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,113 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,841 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,018 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,337 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,684 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,247 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,213 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,397 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,430 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,467 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,251 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,449 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1970 | 83 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1968 | 86 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1967 | 81 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1965 | 82 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1964 | 116 | #993 | — | — |
| 1963 | 130 | #928 | — | — |
| 1962 | 94 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1961 | 101 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1959 | 102 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1958 | 82 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1956 | 120 | #924 | — | — |
| 1955 | 114 | #923 | — | — |
| 1954 | 136 | #808 | — | — |
| 1953 | 125 | #830 | — | — |
| 1952 | 129 | #797 | — | — |
| 1951 | 125 | #797 | — | — |
| 1950 | 130 | #759 | — | — |
| 1949 | 141 | #717 | — | — |
| 1948 | 128 | #756 | — | — |
| 1947 | 148 | #694 | — | — |
| 1946 | 120 | #745 | — | — |
| 1945 | 109 | #715 | — | — |
| 1944 | 128 | #657 | — | — |
| 1943 | 147 | #627 | — | — |
| 1942 | 129 | #660 | — | — |
| 1941 | 130 | #620 | — | — |
| 1940 | 144 | #584 | — | — |
| 1939 | 99 | #683 | — | — |
| 1938 | 112 | #648 | — | — |
| 1937 | 103 | #671 | — | — |
| 1936 | 119 | #603 | — | — |
| 1935 | 131 | #559 | — | — |
| 1934 | 180 | #477 | — | — |
| 1933 | 131 | #561 | — | — |
| 1932 | 116 | #613 | — | — |
| 1931 | 100 | #666 | — | — |
| 1930 | 102 | #681 | — | — |
| 1929 | 121 | #626 | — | — |
| 1928 | 114 | #656 | 6 | #3,963 |
| 1927 | 132 | #620 | 5 | #4,541 |
| 1926 | 117 | #670 | — | — |
| 1925 | 148 | #596 | — | — |
| 1924 | 156 | #592 | — | — |
| 1923 | 142 | #618 | — | — |
| 1922 | 127 | #651 | — | — |
| 1921 | 165 | #556 | — | — |
| 1920 | 168 | #552 | — | — |
| 1919 | 184 | #495 | — | — |
| 1918 | 198 | #482 | — | — |
| 1917 | 159 | #531 | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1916 | 173 | #488 | — | — |
| 1915 | 160 | #487 | — | — |
| 1914 | 139 | #462 | — | — |
| 1913 | 140 | #417 | — | — |
| 1912 | 124 | #418 | — | — |
| 1911 | 104 | #397 | — | — |
| 1910 | 110 | #372 | — | — |
| 1909 | 109 | #345 | — | — |
| 1908 | 83 | #401 | — | — |
| 1907 | 100 | #357 | — | — |
| 1906 | 87 | #361 | — | — |
| 1905 | 85 | #369 | — | — |
| 1904 | 89 | #347 | — | — |
| 1903 | 90 | #331 | — | — |
| 1902 | 95 | #319 | — | — |
| 1901 | 85 | #329 | — | — |
| 1900 | 103 | #334 | — | — |
| 1899 | 84 | #327 | — | — |
| 1898 | 93 | #324 | — | — |
| 1897 | 82 | #323 | — | — |
| 1896 | 72 | #343 | — | — |
| 1895 | 78 | #323 | — | — |
| 1894 | 61 | #357 | — | — |
| 1893 | 73 | #316 | — | — |
| 1892 | 72 | #317 | — | — |
| 1891 | 54 | #343 | — | — |
| 1890 | 69 | #299 | — | — |
| 1889 | 62 | #311 | — | — |
| 1888 | 56 | #323 | — | — |
| 1887 | 41 | #335 | — | — |
| 1886 | 39 | #343 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #359 | — | — |
| 1884 | 29 | #373 | — | — |
| 1883 | 34 | #303 | — | — |
| 1882 | 33 | #310 | — | — |
| 1881 | 27 | #305 | — | — |
| 1880 | 28 | #302 | — | — |
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).