Rona
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: COVID-19
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəwnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 63K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
COVID-19.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rona is read(measured from records)
Rona is one spelling over 3 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.
- English63%
COVID-19.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
A glorious warrior maiden
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- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rona in Spanish.
- Indonesian5.3%
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as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Rona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #721 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Rona | 108 |
| CN China | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Rona | 10 |
| US United States | — | 5,294 | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | Rona | 346 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 268 | Rona | 153 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Rona | 26 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Rona | 59 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 10 | Rona | 51 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1.4K | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 60 | 1 in 13K | 60 | — | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rona 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 German, in Deutschland seit den i96oer-Jahren anzutreffender weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
RO DE RICA
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Kurdish, Brightness, light, radiance, one who symbolizes hope that dispels the darkness
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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)
- Rona Andersonb. 1926GBScottish actress (1926-2013)
- Rona Jaffeb. 1931USnovelist (1931-2005)
- Rona Barrettb. 1936USAmerican gossip columnist and businesswoman
- Rona Doronb. 1954ILIsraeli costume designer
- Rona Munrob. 1959GBScottish writer
- Rona Ambroseb. 1969CACanadian politician
- Rona Hartnerb. 1973RORomanian actress and singer (1973–2023)
- Rona Nishliub. 1986XKKosovo-Albanian singer
- Rona Paractress
- Rona Markfilm director
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,760 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.4K | #538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97 | #3,760 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 60 | #534 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1960 | 10 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2019 | 8 | #406 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1 | #538 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Rona mean, and where does it come from?
- COVID-19. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rona?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəwnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Rona a male or female name?
- Rona 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.
- What are other forms of the name Rona?
- In the etymology graph, Ron, Rhona and Ronit are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Rona in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rona.
- How common is the name Rona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,294 people named Rona in 2020, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Rona compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rona is the 721st most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rona?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ronaThe 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, “Rona” — the 721st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.