How popular is the name Rona?

Rona ranks 1,918th among girls' names in US records, with 5,884 births since 1896. Over the past decade it accounts for 181.

Is Rona a unisex name?

No. Rona is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1966, when 167 children were given the name. It has been in use for 129 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Roanna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,918 of girl names

Pronounced R OW1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Rona is a girls' name, and first appears in 1896. It has been given to 5,884 children — the 1,918th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 181 births across the past decade, against a peak of 167 in a single year. That peak was in 1966.

Roanna is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Rona and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Rona?: Rona ranks 1,918th among girls' names in US records, with 5,884 births since 1896. Over the past decade it accounts for 181.
Is Rona a unisex name?: No. Rona is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Rona most popular?: 1966, when 167 children were given the name. It has been in use for 129 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Rona spelled?: Roanna. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.