Unisex name · since 1915
Bona
181 babies named Bona in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1945. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,826 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 181
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Bona sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 181 recorded since 1915.
Bona has 181 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 2022.
- #20,826 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 181 born since 1915
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bona ranks #20,826 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 181 born since 1915, peaking in the 1940s.
- #20,826 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 181
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Bona's 181 recorded births place it above 71.15% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Bona's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Bona splits its recorded history at 1941: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1925 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1945 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Bona popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–2022
- Peak year (1945)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 108 years of records
Bona popularity over time - boys
10 total births recorded since 1986 (Bona as boys' name)
Bona by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (49 births, 27% of the file).
1940s was Bona's strongest decade.
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Bona births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 8
1910s
8 births
- 1920s
1920s
46 births
- 1930s
1930s
38 births
- 1940s
1940s
49 births
- 1950s
1950s
24 births
- 1960s 11
1960s
11 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 49 births (27% of all-time use).
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- Bona's decade-level peak was the 1940s (49 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Bona: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Bona draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.