Nona vs Nonie
American parents have registered 16,708 Nonas since 1880, against 1,363 Nonies. Nona is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Nona Nonie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Nona has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2022, when Nona had 24 and Nonie had 8.
Side by side
| Nona | Nonie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 16,708 | 1,363 |
| Most in one year | 360 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | 12 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 6,300 | 380 |
| Median age today | 70 | 70 |
| Peak year | 1950 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 423rd girls | 1,377th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,362nd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 16,708 / 0 | 1,363 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nona and Nonie.