Ona

Where Ona comes from

Ona 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
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #300
    82 babies named Ona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,576.
  4. 1990
    Ona Carbonell born
    Spanish synchronized swimmer
  5. 1999
    Ona Batlle born
    Spanish association football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Ona Batlle · Spanish association football player, born 1999
  • Ona Carbonell · Spanish synchronized swimmer, born 1990
  • Ona Munson · American actress, 1903–1955
  • Ona Šimaitė · Lithuanian librarian, activist, and Holocaust survivor, 1894–1970
  • Ona Zee · American pornographic actress, born 1951

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.