Lonna
Lonna was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 3,351 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Lonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 50 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lonna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,601, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1947, the peak
Lonna peaked in 1947, when 91 girls were given it, #932 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,601 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,298 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,700 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,003 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,942 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,297 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,540 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,502 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,305 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,680 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,931 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,425 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,544 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,550 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,363 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,938 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,172 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,160 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,390 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,774 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,211 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,594 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,353 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,754 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,243 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,469 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,124 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,150 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,885 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,823 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,246 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,769 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,477 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,806 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,277 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,216 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,670 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,201 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,486 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,942 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,966 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,291 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,771 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,227 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,579 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,305 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,837 | 32.7 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,153 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,742 | 33.5 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,567 | 37.3 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,522 | 37.2 |
| 1969 | 68 | #1,414 | 40.3 |
| 1968 | 82 | #1,202 | 50.0 |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,198 | 47.8 |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,166 | 49.6 |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,378 | 36.8 |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,202 | 44.9 |
| 1963 | 85 | #1,186 | 44.1 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,255 | 39.7 |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,188 | 43.1 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,258 | 37.6 |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,186 | 40.0 |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,402 | 28.8 |
| 1957 | 71 | #1,247 | 34.7 |
| 1956 | 66 | #1,284 | 32.9 |
| 1955 | 66 | #1,248 | 33.8 |
| 1954 | 63 | #1,251 | 32.4 |
| 1953 | 78 | #1,101 | 41.5 |
| 1952 | 80 | #1,056 | 43.1 |
| 1951 | 89 | #991 | 49.4 |
| 1950 | 79 | #1,030 | 46.1 |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,034 | 43.8 |
| 1948 | 81 | #969 | 47.7 |
| 1947 | 91 | #932 | 51.3 |
| 1946 | 81 | #927 | 51.5 |
| 1945 | 73 | #885 | 55.8 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,024 | 44.5 |
| 1943 | 68 | #959 | 48.7 |
| 1942 | 63 | #988 | 46.6 |
| 1941 | 73 | #854 | 60.4 |
| 1940 | 86 | #746 | 75.2 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,264 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,842 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,317 | 7.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,844 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,653 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,277 | 7.9 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,883 | 6.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,531 | 4.0 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,252 | 4.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,837 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lonna, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 3,351 Americans ever recorded as Lonna. The median Lonna alive today is 62 years old; half are between 50 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,832 people named Lonna (2,822 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 226 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 751 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 252 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 209 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 91 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lonna born?
The states with the most babies named Lonna are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 259 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 91 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 90 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 43 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lonna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,127 babies since 1880, Lonna is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Lonna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lonna
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 Lonna and names like it
- Compare Lonna and LonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLonna peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Lonna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lonna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.