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Wyona vs Wyonda

American parents have registered 782 Wyonas since 1880, against 10 Wyondas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wyona against Wyonda, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wyona Wyonda

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

Wyona has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 1968. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1937, when Wyona had 18 and Wyonda had 10.

Side by side

  Wyona Wyonda
Total US births 78210
Most in one year 3210
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2103
Median age today 7988
Peak year 19241937
Best rank 1,475th girls2,735th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19111937
Girls / boys 782 / 010 / 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 Wyondas alive today are over 88; half the Wyonas are over 79. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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