Nonna
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nonna 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.
- GEGeorgia1 in 242as ნონა(measured from records)
- AMArmenia≈1 in 1.5Kas Նոնա
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 28Kas Nona
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 Nonna 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 11K (inferred from the name graph)
16,509 named ნონა
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nona in US United States, GE Georgia, PH Philippines and 2 more and 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)
"God-blessed, clean, light."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nonna is read(measured from records)
Nonna is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English30%
A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nonna in Ukrainian.
- Russian12%
"God-blessed, clean, light."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
de nonnus, neuvième. Fête : 5 (18) août. Nonna est son équivalent français. Fête : 5 août.
as a nameRussian Names
- Arabic9.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nonna in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nonna 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 | — | 7,601as Nona | 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 | — | 385as Nona | 1 in 8.7K | 385 | — | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Nona | 15 |
| PL Poland | — | 272 | 1 in 141K | 272 | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 169 | 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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)
Nonna is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite feminine singular of nonne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, grandmother, granny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Nonna Auskáb. 1923CZCzech physician
- Nonna Mordyukovab. 1925RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Nonna Bannisterb. 1927USRussian-born American author and Holocaust survivor (1927-2004)
- Nonna Bakun-Czubarowb. 1937PLPolish geologist
- Nonna Karakashyanb. 1940RUSoviet chess player
- Nonna Mayerb. 1948FRFrench political scientist (born 1948)
- Nonna Grishayevab. 1971RURussian actress and singer
- Nonna Debonneb. 1985FRFrench footballer
- Nonna Bellab. 2000TRTurkish singer (born 2000)
- Nonna FernerUSAmerican actress and inventor
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 571 | #18,582 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 272 | #864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 272 | #864 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 169 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 166 | #965 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 147 | #784 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #18,582 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 7 | — |
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
- Where does the name Nonna come from?
- "God-blessed, clean, light." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- What does the name Nonna mean?
- In English, A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
- Is Nonna a male or female name?
- Nonna 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 Nonna 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 Nonna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nonna is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nonna?
- In Poland, the national register counted 272 people named Nonna in 2026, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
- How common is Nonna compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Nonna is the 65th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nonnaThe 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, “Nonna” — the 65th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.