Vona
Vona was last recorded in 1971, when 5 babies were given it; 852 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,607, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1918, the peak
Vona peaked in 1918, when 28 girls were given it, #1,534 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | #9,607 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,454 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,232 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,653 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,188 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,498 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,998 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,630 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,850 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,786 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #5,160 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,020 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,183 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,359 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,485 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,773 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,640 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,022 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,193 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,707 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,305 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,171 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,133 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,633 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,420 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,908 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,133 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,348 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,809 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,529 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,201 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,296 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,943 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,911 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,517 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,433 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,909 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,394 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,031 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,020 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,868 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,427 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,734 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,020 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,469 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,373 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,059 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,088 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,102 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,921 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,259 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,632 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,534 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,422 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,240 | 14.4 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,135 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,120 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,025 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,962 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,542 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,775 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,092 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,049 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,941 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,920 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,652 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,315 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,432 | 30.3 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,934 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,496 | 27.1 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,207 | 37.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vona, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Vona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 368 people named Vona (356 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,120 babies since 1880, Vona is the second most given (40% of them).
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 Vona
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 Vona and names like it
- Compare Vona and VonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVona peaked in 1918.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vona since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Vona.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vona alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.