Ionna
Ionna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,300 among girls’ names; 272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ionna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ionna?
#11,300 among girls’ names, 2025
Ionna rose from #13,543 in 2015 to #11,300 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
22 babies in 2008, the peak
Ionna peaked in 2008, when 22 girls were given it, #6,221 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,300 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,654 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,184 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,050 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,792 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,833 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,243 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,666 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,543 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,756 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,309 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,358 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,625 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,467 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,221 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,139 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,973 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,653 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,975 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,948 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,478 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,394 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,962 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,705 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,032 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,339 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ionna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ionna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ionna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ionna, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Ionna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Ionna (238 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Ionna?
Ionna is a less common spelling of Iona: SSA has recorded 272 Ionna and 12,261 Iona since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 70,255 babies since 1880, Ionna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 345 babies (2.3%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ionna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ionna and names like it
- Compare Ionna and IonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIonna peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ionna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ionna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.