Nonă
surname · Latin script
Nonă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. 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.
- MDMoldova1 in 8.7K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 41K
- LVLatvia1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
7,601 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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, ES Spain, MD Moldova.
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.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nonă 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 | 145 |
| MD Moldova | #979 | 385 | 1 in 8.7K | 385 | Nona | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 271 | 1 in 185K | 271 | Nona | 49 |
| PL Poland | — | 259 | 1 in 148K | 259 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 252 | 1 in 69K | 252 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 135 | 1 in 41K | 165 | — | 4 |
| LV Latvia | — | 43 | 1 in 44K | 43 | — | 1 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); e-services.md — living population register; 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 Nonă 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nonă?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Nonă, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nona. After it come Moldova, Spain, Poland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nonă most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nonă 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 Nonă?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,601 people named Nonă in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Nonă compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Nonă is the 979th most common given name of 1,433 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/non%C4%83The 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, “Nonă” — the 979th most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.