Lona

Where Lona comes from

Lona 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. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #294 among girls with 28 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1915
    Lona Andre born
    American actress
  3. 1966
    Lona Williams born
    Television producer, writer and actress
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,880.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lona Andre · American actress, 1915–1992
  • Lona Williams · Television producer, writer and actress, born 1966
  • Lona Gulowsen · Norwegian singer, 1848–1934

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.