Bona — unisex name

What the Data Says About Bona

The Social Security Administration has registered 181 babies named Bona between 1915 and 2022, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bona currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1945, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Bona is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bona performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Bona shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bona in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 181 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.