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Ona

Gender
Girl
Say it
OH-na
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls
US rank, 2025
#5,721 for girls

Ona is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “grace, favour”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).

What does Ona mean?

Hebrew: Lithuanian form of Anna; also a variant of Una

“grace, favour”

Ona Rudkus, wife of the hero Jurgis, is a central character in Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906).

Is Ona a girl's or a boy's name?

Ona is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ona in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,101st among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 4% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Ona, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ona in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 12 in 20222025
Ona in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
202411#2,480
20237#3,388
202212#2,277
20216#3,697
20209#2,766
201910#2,590
20186#3,702
201711#2,485
201610#2,692
20156#3,777
20147#3,321
20135#4,267
20125#4,390
20115#4,244
20100–
20096#3,603
20081#7,383
20071#7,017
20060–
20054#4,150
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19961#5,054

How popular is Ona in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,721st among girls
Babies in 2025
21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Ona, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 1916, with 185 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Ona than any year since 2013.

Half of all the girls named Ona in the US since 1880 were born between 1912 and 1946, the years shaded on the chart below.

1880Busiest: 185 in 19162025
Ona in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202521#5,721
202429#4,667
202328#4,743
202228#4,790
202126#4,960
202022#5,483
201939#3,787
201836#4,000
201730#4,574
201635#4,156
201539#3,841
201433#4,348
201320#6,252
201223#5,707
201128#4,913
201018#6,901
200916#7,676
200818#7,069
200718#7,088
200610#10,606
200517#6,815
200417#6,763
200317#6,571
200212#8,274
20019#10,095
200013#7,574
19998#10,338
199814#6,714
19977#10,831
19969#8,807
199515#5,953
199416#5,707
199312#7,031
199211#7,504
199117#5,393
199019#4,863
19896#10,841
198815#5,316
19876#9,820
198618#4,344
198516#4,633
198415#4,736
198311#5,822
198220#3,897
198119#4,004
198019#3,991
197918#4,051
197823#3,283
197719#3,760
197614#4,361
197531#2,516
197423#3,008
197329#2,506
197225#2,747
197125#2,801
197025#2,779
196919#3,101
196822#2,708
196724#2,492
196625#2,406
196528#2,246
196416#3,243
196326#2,363
196226#2,356
196126#2,358
196038#1,834
195921#2,516
195831#1,984
195742#1,651
195641#1,661
195545#1,515
195455#1,343
195338#1,585
195256#1,268
195169#1,115
195053#1,258
194951#1,277
194835#1,575
194745#1,376
194666#1,041
194565#954
194466#953
194362#1,006
194279#864
194164#918
194068#862
193976#785
193871#840
193777#778
193688#711
193583#741
1934120#597
193378#745
193299#678
1931121#602
1930107#664
1929131#597
1928113#658
1927143#593
1926130#627
1925159#568
1924157#587
1923144#607
1922150#586
1921160#566
1920161#565
1919163#538
1918169#540
1917182#486
1916185#468
1915168#476
1914127#494
1913124#443
191297#485
191175#477
191094#406
190968#453
190883#399
190785#385
190668#413
190576#387
190473#385
190354#432
190274#370
190179#344
190075#386
189975#344
189876#359
189771#348
189663#365
189566#346
189464#345
189382#300
189265#330
189163#317
189056#343
188953#341
188858#314
188747#310
188645#311
188533#348
188440#304
188326#354
188218#431
188121#360
188021#352

Names like Ona

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Clara, Eva, Cora, Nora, Ada, Orla, Elsie, Etta, Olive, Annie, Nina, Nellie

Names related to Ona

Iona, Oona, Yona, Onna, Onya

More Hebrew names

Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias

Every Hebrew name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ona: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ona, updated 20 October 2026.