Onna is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Una, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Onna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,861 in 1941.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,861 in 1941; #8,736 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Onna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,736 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1941, at #3,861.
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Onna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,861 in 1941 · most girls in one year: 33 (2015).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Onna, making it the 8,736th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,110 places from #14,846 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 6 girls named Onna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,861, reached in 1941. The most girls given the name in a single year was 33, in 2015. For comparison, it was #4,376 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Onna in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 5 babies. In all, 656 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 166 babies named Onna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125 US girls were named Onna; the busiest of those years was 2016, 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 Una (8,108 babies since 1880), Ona (8,031 babies since 1880) and Oona (1,776 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Onna 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 | #8,736 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,846 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,935 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,407 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,182 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,391 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,629 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,220 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,475 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,524 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,229 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,164 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,977 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,747 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,410 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,755 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,228 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,360 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,269 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,255 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,419 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,107 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,420 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,611 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,016 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,558 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,262 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,898 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,140 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,177 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,902 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,182 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,663 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,043 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,398 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,712 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,890 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,129 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,361 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,944 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,070 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,558 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,339 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,169 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,689 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,193 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,920 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,776 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,246 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,408 | — | — |
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).