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Vona vs Vonna

American parents have registered 1,095 Vonnas since 1880, against 852 Vonas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vona against Vonna, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vona Vonna

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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Vonna for 48 years and Vona for 30 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Vona Vonna
Total US births 8521,095
Most in one year 2836
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 270620
Median age today 7370
Peak year 19181960
Best rank 1,497th girls1,887th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18911915
Girls / boys 852 / 01,095 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Vonas alive today are over 73; half the Vonnas are over 70. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vona and Vonna.