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Iona
Pronounced /aɪˈoʊnə/
Rank in 2024
#2,779
Born in 2024
61
Peak year
1918 · #317
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 61 girls were named Iona, about 1 in every 26,446.
- It peaked in 1918 with 404 babies, ranked #317.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 12,186 girls have been named Iona since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Iona per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,714 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Silent: 2,882 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,087 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 332 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 190 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 490 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 729 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Probably a misreading of Latin Ioua, an attempt to Latinize Old Irish Í.
- A female given name transferred from the place name, of mostly Scottish usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /aɪˈoʊnə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Iona, CC BY-SA 4.0.