Meaning not yet researched.
Ona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #303 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #303 in 1893; #5,868 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,868 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #303.
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Ona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #303 in 1893 · most girls in one year: 185 (1916).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Ona, making it the 5,868th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,123 places from #4,745 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 29 girls named Ona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #303, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 185, in 1916. For comparison, it was #3,903 in 2015 and #1,269 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ona in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 8,031 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,480 babies named Ona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 294 US girls were named Ona; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Una (8,108 babies since 1880) and Oona (1,776 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ohana, Onnah and Onaya 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 Lithuanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ohana (502), Onnah (15), Onaya (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 Ona in the open dataset we use.
Ona is listed as a nickname for Arizona.
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 | 21 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,876 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,668 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,418 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,849 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,023 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,145 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,976 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,328 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,330 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,221 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,070 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,019 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,816 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,688 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,785 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,926 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,111 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,752 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,364 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,176 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,354 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,882 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,005 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,898 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,846 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,800 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,900 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,097 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1949 | 51 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1946 | 66 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1945 | 65 | #965 | — | — |
| 1944 | 66 | #961 | — | — |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1942 | 79 | #871 | — | — |
| 1941 | 64 | #923 | — | — |
| 1940 | 68 | #867 | — | — |
| 1939 | 76 | #788 | 5 | #3,836 |
| 1938 | 71 | #844 | — | — |
| 1937 | 77 | #785 | — | — |
| 1936 | 88 | #716 | — | — |
| 1935 | 83 | #742 | — | — |
| 1934 | 120 | #603 | — | — |
| 1933 | 78 | #749 | — | — |
| 1932 | 99 | #684 | — | — |
| 1931 | 121 | #603 | — | — |
| 1930 | 107 | #666 | — | — |
| 1929 | 131 | #597 | 9 | #2,911 |
| 1928 | 113 | #659 | — | — |
| 1927 | 143 | #593 | 6 | #4,077 |
| 1926 | 130 | #629 | — | — |
| 1925 | 159 | #569 | — | — |
| 1924 | 157 | #590 | 6 | #4,216 |
| 1923 | 144 | #611 | 5 | #4,720 |
| 1922 | 150 | #587 | — | — |
| 1921 | 160 | #571 | 6 | #4,207 |
| 1920 | 161 | #566 | — | — |
| 1919 | 163 | #539 | 5 | #4,624 |
| 1918 | 169 | #543 | 11 | #2,657 |
| 1917 | 182 | #488 | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1916 | 185 | #468 | — | — |
| 1915 | 168 | #476 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 1914 | 127 | #496 | 5 | #3,616 |
| 1913 | 124 | #446 | — | — |
| 1912 | 97 | #488 | 8 | #2,005 |
| 1911 | 75 | #480 | — | — |
| 1910 | 94 | #409 | — | — |
| 1909 | 68 | #455 | — | — |
| 1908 | 83 | #402 | — | — |
| 1907 | 85 | #386 | — | — |
| 1906 | 68 | #413 | — | — |
| 1905 | 76 | #387 | — | — |
| 1904 | 73 | #390 | — | — |
| 1903 | 54 | #433 | — | — |
| 1902 | 74 | #372 | — | — |
| 1901 | 79 | #345 | — | — |
| 1900 | 75 | #386 | — | — |
| 1899 | 75 | #345 | — | — |
| 1898 | 76 | #360 | — | — |
| 1897 | 71 | #350 | — | — |
| 1896 | 63 | #367 | — | — |
| 1895 | 66 | #348 | — | — |
| 1894 | 64 | #347 | — | — |
| 1893 | 82 | #303 | — | — |
| 1892 | 65 | #331 | — | — |
| 1891 | 63 | #318 | — | — |
| 1890 | 56 | #346 | — | — |
| 1889 | 53 | #344 | — | — |
| 1888 | 58 | #316 | — | — |
| 1887 | 47 | #313 | — | — |
| 1886 | 45 | #316 | — | — |
| 1885 | 33 | #350 | 5 | #1,055 |
| 1884 | 40 | #313 | — | — |
| 1883 | 26 | #365 | — | — |
| 1882 | 18 | #442 | — | — |
| 1881 | 21 | #369 | — | — |
| 1880 | 21 | #363 | — | — |
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).