Girl

Una

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,245
49 girls
2015
#3,526
rank
1950
#1,408
rank

Una: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #331 in 1890.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #331 in 1890; #3,245 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Una in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,245 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #331.

Babies in 2025
49
Since 1880
8,108
Years on record
146

Babies named Una, every year since 1880

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Girls

Una: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #331 in 1890 · most girls in one year: 217 (1921).

About the name Una

In 2025, 49 US girls were named Una, making it the 3,245th most common girls’ name of the year, down 236 places from #3,009 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 55 girls named Una in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #331, reached in 1890. The most girls given the name in a single year was 217, in 1921. For comparison, it was #3,526 in 2015 and #1,408 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Una in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 10 babies with the name. In all, 8,108 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,597 babies named Una.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 543 US girls were named Una; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Ona (8,031 babies since 1880) and Oona (1,776 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Onna, Unai and Onah are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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 Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Onna (656), Unai (43), Onah (11), Oana (10), Onai (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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Una in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202549#3,245——
202455#3,009——
202348#3,382——
202263#2,753——
202148#3,336——
202062#2,710——
201959#2,853——
201853#3,101——
201746#3,433——
201660#2,865——
201545#3,526——
201445#3,543——
201340#3,848——
201233#4,482——
201134#4,348——
201026#5,402——
200932#4,667——
200838#4,169——
200739#4,047——
200626#5,369——
200540#3,721——
200421#5,956——
200326#4,934——
200221#5,661——
200130#4,203——
200027#4,520——
199919#5,650——
199817#6,055——
19977#12,020——
199614#6,718——
199514#6,627——
199410#8,768——
19939#9,517——
199214#6,637——
199112#7,412——
199013#6,855——
19898#9,640——
19888#9,213——
198714#5,604——
19869#7,729——
19857#9,267——
198415#4,960——
198311#6,199——
198212#5,894——
198111#6,304——
198013#5,532——
197914#5,086——
197814#4,925——
197715#4,642——
197615#4,353——
197512#5,149——
197420#3,424——
197322#3,117——
197231#2,393——
197122#3,156——
197028#2,643——
196929#2,449——
196826#2,479——
196735#2,009——
196628#2,302——
196534#2,029——
196441#1,865——
196337#1,949——
196245#1,706——
196140#1,836——
196041#1,787——
195935#1,916——
195835#1,870——
195739#1,751——
195633#1,893——
195536#1,769——
195434#1,798——
195330#1,868——
195249#1,400——
195134#1,661——
195043#1,408——
194938#1,508——
194838#1,518——
194742#1,458——
194649#1,238——
194552#1,099——
194461#1,003——
194360#1,035——
194261#1,004——
194162#941——
194093#725——
193991#716——
1938110#655——
193785#739——
193697#677——
193595#687——
1934108#647——
1933124#577——
1932115#623——
1931108#643——
1930126#616——
1929119#636——
1928123#638——
1927123#654——
1926145#591——
1925173#545——
1924171#559——
1923152#586——
1922183#518——
1921217#468——
1920191#501——
1919186#492——
1918204#468——
1917161#527——
1916173#489——
1915164#483——
1914139#464——
1913105#500——
1912109#454——
191173#486——
191071#485——
190957#498——
190856#487——
190772#422——
190663#436——
190547#495——
190450#468——
190348#465——
190249#453——
190150#427——
190070#398——
189953#401——
189850#436——
189744#447——
189651#402——
189546#420——
189455#381——
189343#413——
189240#427——
189139#400——
189059#331——
188947#352——
188833#438——
188731#396——
188626#429——
188528#392——
188423#424——
188319#448——
188218#444——
188114#468——
188010#578——

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).