Nona
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Latin; the ninth, as in the ninth child.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 44K
- GEGeorgia1 in 242as ნონა
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nona itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
16,509 named ნონა
recorded for this name
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 Նոնա in AM Armenia.
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)
Latin; the ninth, as in the ninth child.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #65 | 16,509as ნონა | 1 in 242 | 17K | Nona | 46 |
| US United States | — | 7,601 | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Nona | 345 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nona | 54 |
| AM Armenia | #255 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Նոնա | 38 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Nona | 14 |
| MD Moldova | — | 385 | 1 in 8.7K | 385 | — | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Nona | 15 |
| LV Latvia | — | 169as Nonna | 1 in 11K | 169 | — | 4 |
16,509 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling ნონა. 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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); e-services.md — living population register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, The youngest of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the spinner of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Clotho.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from the canonical hour name 'nones'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
English: 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 girls, it has passed into more general, if only occasional, use.
as a word
In Russian, "nine" [in Greek].
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nona L. Brooksb. 1861USAmerican writer (1861–1945)
- Nona Balakianb. 1918USliterary critic & editor, co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle (1918-1991)
- Nona Gaprindashvilib. 1941GESoviet chess player
- Nona Hendryxb. 1944USAmerican musician
- Nona Gabrielyanb. 1944GEArmenian painter, sculptor, writer (born 1944)
- Nona Fernándezb. 1971CLChilean writer
- Nona Gayeb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Nona Pérezb. 2003ESSpanish water polo player
- Nona IshikawaJPJapanese seiyū
- Nonna of NazianzusTRnot in their usual namewife of Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder (–374)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.5K | #2,961 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 385 | #523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67 | #2,961 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 43 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 43 | #1,728 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nona mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin; the ninth, as in the ninth child. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Nona a male or female name?
- Nona 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 Nona have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named ნონა, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nona is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 8.7 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,601 people named Nona in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Nona compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Nona is the 65th most common given name of 12,900 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/nonaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nona” — the 65th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.