Ñona
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ñona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Libya it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the feminine form of the Latin ordinal nonus ‘ninth’, sometimes used as a given name in Victorian times for the ninth-born child in a family if it was a girl, or even for the ninth-born girl.
- LYLibya≈1 in 125K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 8.7K
- FIFinland1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
7,601 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nona in US United States, LY Libya.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the feminine form of the Latin ordinal nonus ‘ninth’, sometimes used as a given name in Victorian times for the ninth-born child in a family if it was a girl, or even for the ninth-born girl. At the present day, when few people have nine children, let alone nine daughters, = 185 it has passed into more general, if only occasional, use. Monroe (1926-62), originally named Norma-Jean Baker.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,601 | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Nona | 90 |
| MD Moldova | — | 385 | 1 in 8.7K | 385 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 271 | 1 in 185K | 271 | — | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | 259 | 1 in 148K | 259 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 252 | 1 in 69K | 252 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 135 | 1 in 41K | 165 | — | 1 |
| LY Libya | #37 | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Nona | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | 43 | 1 in 44K | 43 | — | — |
7,601 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñona mean, and where does it come from?
- From the feminine form of the Latin ordinal nonus ‘ninth’, sometimes used as a given name in Victorian times for the ninth-born child in a family if it was a girl, or even for the ninth-born girl. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Nordic Names.
- Is Ñona a male or female name?
- Ñona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ñona have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Ñona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nona.
- Where is Ñona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ñona is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 8.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ñona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,601 people named Ñona in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñona compared with other names?
- In Libya, Ñona is the 37th most common given name of 8,449 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1onaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñona” — the 37th most common given name in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.