Fonda

Where Fonda comes from

Fonda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,398 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Peak, #764
    181 babies named Fonda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,376.
  4. 1979
    Fonda Sahla born
    former politician from the Netherlands
  5. 1979
    Fonda Lee born
    Canadian-American author of speculative fiction
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Fonda Lee · Canadian-American author of speculative fiction, born 1979
  • Fonda Rae · American R&B singer
  • Fonda Sahla · former politician from the Netherlands, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.