Zona

Where Zona comes from

The dictionaries list Zona as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1874
    Zona Gale born
    American author and playwright
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #412
    28 babies named Zona — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #727.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Zona Gale · American author and playwright, 1874–1938

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.