# Nona (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nona/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,708 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 16,708 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 30, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 6,094 |
| 2012 | 21 | 6,285 |
| 2013 | 25 | 5,442 |
| 2014 | 28 | 4,994 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,420 |
| 2016 | 37 | 4,064 |
| 2017 | 28 | 4,898 |
| 2018 | 24 | 5,418 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,869 |
| 2020 | 16 | 7,138 |
| 2021 | 23 | 5,518 |
| 2022 | 24 | 5,432 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,857 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,506 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,725 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |

## People named Nona

- Nona Gaye, American actress
- Nona Hendryx, American musician
- Nona Fernández, Chilean writer
- Nonna of Nazianzus, Christianikí agía

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.