Rona

Where Rona comes from

Short for Corona.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rona
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Peak, #773
    96 babies named Rona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    Rona Hartner born
    Romanian actress and singer
  4. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,474.
  5. 1986
    Rona Nishliu born
    Kosovo-Albanian singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Rona Nishliu · Kosovo-Albanian singer, born 1986
  • Rona Hartner · Romanian actress and singer, 1973–2023
  • Rona Anderson · Scottish actress, 1926–2013
  • Rona Ambrose · Canadian politician, born 1969
  • Rona Jaffe · novelist, 1931–2005

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.