Meaning not yet researched.
Nona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #266 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #266 in 1881; #8,725 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,725 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #266.
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Nona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #266 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 360 (1950).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Nona, making it the 8,725th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,219 places from #7,506 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 15 girls named Nona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #266, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 360, in 1950. For comparison, it was #5,420 in 2015 and #424 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nona in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 31 babies with the name. In all, 16,708 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 2,681 babies named Nona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 224 US girls were named Nona; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. 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 Nena (4,896 babies since 1880) and Nana (3,396 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anona, Nonna and Nuna 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anona (508), Nonna (98), Nuna (29), Nonah (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 Nona 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 | #8,725 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,857 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,432 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,138 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,869 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,418 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,898 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,442 | — | — |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,329 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,252 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,325 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,268 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,723 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,336 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,920 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,060 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,011 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,783 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,594 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,080 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,615 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,632 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,861 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,761 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1970 | 82 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1969 | 82 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1968 | 75 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1964 | 134 | #901 | — | — |
| 1963 | 118 | #982 | — | — |
| 1962 | 133 | #921 | — | — |
| 1961 | 132 | #942 | — | — |
| 1960 | 168 | #794 | — | — |
| 1959 | 190 | #739 | — | — |
| 1958 | 181 | #737 | — | — |
| 1957 | 206 | #696 | — | — |
| 1956 | 214 | #657 | — | — |
| 1955 | 197 | #666 | — | — |
| 1954 | 245 | #574 | — | — |
| 1953 | 268 | #526 | — | — |
| 1952 | 259 | #528 | — | — |
| 1951 | 314 | #471 | — | — |
| 1950 | 360 | #424 | — | — |
| 1949 | 232 | #550 | — | — |
| 1948 | 230 | #546 | — | — |
| 1947 | 223 | #573 | — | — |
| 1946 | 210 | #546 | — | — |
| 1945 | 209 | #509 | — | — |
| 1944 | 186 | #533 | — | — |
| 1943 | 192 | #542 | — | — |
| 1942 | 237 | #479 | — | — |
| 1941 | 216 | #477 | — | — |
| 1940 | 243 | #437 | — | — |
| 1939 | 233 | #442 | — | — |
| 1938 | 269 | #410 | — | — |
| 1937 | 252 | #407 | — | — |
| 1936 | 260 | #394 | — | — |
| 1935 | 250 | #412 | — | — |
| 1934 | 306 | #361 | — | — |
| 1933 | 278 | #387 | — | — |
| 1932 | 262 | #404 | — | — |
| 1931 | 269 | #398 | — | — |
| 1930 | 302 | #391 | — | — |
| 1929 | 248 | #424 | — | — |
| 1928 | 271 | #414 | — | — |
| 1927 | 259 | #429 | — | — |
| 1926 | 294 | #400 | — | — |
| 1925 | 257 | #430 | — | — |
| 1924 | 271 | #428 | — | — |
| 1923 | 275 | #405 | — | — |
| 1922 | 255 | #414 | — | — |
| 1921 | 290 | #397 | — | — |
| 1920 | 251 | #421 | — | — |
| 1919 | 235 | #426 | — | — |
| 1918 | 280 | #392 | — | — |
| 1917 | 266 | #387 | — | — |
| 1916 | 254 | #391 | — | — |
| 1915 | 242 | #388 | — | — |
| 1914 | 188 | #388 | — | — |
| 1913 | 175 | #365 | — | — |
| 1912 | 146 | #381 | — | — |
| 1911 | 96 | #411 | — | — |
| 1910 | 135 | #339 | — | — |
| 1909 | 84 | #399 | — | — |
| 1908 | 90 | #382 | — | — |
| 1907 | 101 | #352 | — | — |
| 1906 | 85 | #366 | — | — |
| 1905 | 105 | #331 | — | — |
| 1904 | 85 | #357 | — | — |
| 1903 | 77 | #366 | — | — |
| 1902 | 88 | #337 | — | — |
| 1901 | 69 | #363 | — | — |
| 1900 | 132 | #285 | — | — |
| 1899 | 104 | #288 | — | — |
| 1898 | 92 | #327 | — | — |
| 1897 | 80 | #329 | — | — |
| 1896 | 74 | #339 | — | — |
| 1895 | 71 | #340 | — | — |
| 1894 | 70 | #334 | — | — |
| 1893 | 68 | #326 | — | — |
| 1892 | 83 | #298 | — | — |
| 1891 | 71 | #296 | — | — |
| 1890 | 72 | #293 | — | — |
| 1889 | 68 | #292 | — | — |
| 1888 | 69 | #283 | — | — |
| 1887 | 36 | #363 | — | — |
| 1886 | 45 | #315 | — | — |
| 1885 | 38 | #335 | — | — |
| 1884 | 28 | #381 | — | — |
| 1883 | 33 | #310 | — | — |
| 1882 | 37 | #293 | — | — |
| 1881 | 38 | #266 | — | — |
| 1880 | 31 | #280 | — | — |
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).