Lona
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in England and Wales.
Lona by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Lona. In the US, 14 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 198 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lona
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lona. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Lunamoon5,327 in the US (2017)
- Lolasorrows; diminutive of Dolores524 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lenabright light; short form of Helena1,072 in the US (2017)
- Lanabright or fair; a form of Helen or Alana185 in England and Wales (2025)
- Leonalioness; feminine form of Leo555 in the US (2017)
- Linalight; short form of Helena or other names200 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Lona
Names that are said the same way as Lona, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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