In 2025, 10 US boys were named Ugonna, making it the 8,204th most common boys’ name of the year, up 62 places from #8,266 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 10 boys named Ugonna in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #7,754, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 2025. For comparison, it was #8,694 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Ugonna in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #13,530, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 8, in 2009. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ugonna in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 5 babies. In all, 234 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 94 babies named Ugonna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 61 US boys were named Ugonna; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.