Nona

Where Nona comes from

Nona 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 #278 among girls — 31 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #262
    38 babies named Nona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1941
    Nona Gaprindashvili born
    Soviet chess player
  4. 1974
    Nona Gaye born
    American actress
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,990.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Nona Gaprindashvili · Soviet chess player, born 1941
  • Nona Gaye · American actress, born 1974
  • Nona Hendryx · American musician, born 1944
  • Nona Fernández · Chilean writer, born 1971
  • Nona Pérez · Spanish water polo player, born 2003

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.