Ramona

Where Ramona comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Ramona.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ramona
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #679 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1928
    Peak, #117
    2,239 babies named Ramona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #180.
  4. 1958
    Ramona Neubert born
    East German heptathlete
  5. 1990
    Ramona Bachmann born
    Swiss footballer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Ramona Bachmann · Swiss footballer, born 1990
  • Ramona Neubert · East German heptathlete, born 1958
  • Ramona Balthasar · German rower, born 1964
  • Ramona Portwich · East German canoe racer, born 1967
  • Ramona Mănescu · Romanian politician, born 1972

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.