Liona
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Altered form of Leona, influenced by pLionel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 73K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 76K
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 73K (inferred from the name graph)
242 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Altered form of Leona, influenced by pLionel.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liona 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 | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 227 | Liona | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | 196 | 1 in 88K | 196 | Liona | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Liona | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 140 | 1 in 73K | 140 | — | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Liona | 7 |
| FI Finland | 67 | 1 in 83K | 73 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 28 | 1 in 110K | 28 | — | — |
242 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Liona is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: apparently an altered form of LEONA , influenced by LIONEL .
as a word
In Latvian, Lyon, Lyons (the capital city of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Francijas austrumos, osta pie Ronas un Sonas satekas, Ronas-Alpu reģiona Ronas departamenta administratīvais centrs, 484300 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Leona Vicariob. 1789MXnot in their usual nameMexican spy
- Leona Robertsb. 1879USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1879–1954)
- Leona Woodsb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican nuclear physicist (1919–1986)
- Leona Helmsleyb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican hotel owner (1920–2007)
- Leona Mitchellb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican opera singer
- Leona Azabub. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV idol
- Leona Aglukkaqb. 1967CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Leona Marlin-Romeob. 1973NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
- Leona Paraminskib. 1979HRnot in their usual nameCroatian actress
- Leona Lewisb. 1985GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1985)
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Liona mean, and where does it come from?
- Altered form of Leona, influenced by pLionel. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Liona a male or female name?
- Liona 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 Liona have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 242 people named Liona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liona.
- Where is Liona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liona is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 73 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 242 people named Liona in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lionaThe 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, “Liona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.