Nonna
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nonna is a given name, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Ukrainian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "God-blessed, clean, light".
- GEGeorgia1 in 242◐
- ITItaly1 in 38K
- CACanada1 in 42K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 303 ●
- 1 in 242 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
134K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nona in US United States, GE Georgia, GB United Kingdom and 22 more and Noena in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
"God-blessed, clean, light."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #66 | 16,509 | 17K rec. | 1 in 242 | 17K | Nona | 45 |
| US United States | — | 7,534 | 93K rec. | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Nona | 303 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,288 | 4.2K rec. | — | listed | Nona | 67 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,004 | 2K rec. | — | — | Nona | 61 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,938 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Nona | 61 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,602 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Nona | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,319 | 1.4K rec. | — | listed | Nona | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,024 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Nona | 59 |
| BE Belgium | — | 949 | 267 rec. | — | 54 | Nona | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 631 | 587 rec. | — | — | Nona | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 478 | 783 rec. | — | — | Nona | 15 |
| SG Singapore | — | 401 | 415 rec. | — | — | Nona | 15 |
Roughly 17K people in Georgia bear this name (about 1 in 242). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English5K25%
- Ukrainian4.7K23%
- Russian1.9K9%
- Polish1.1K6%
- Arabic1.1K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 5,017 | 25% |
| Ukrainian | 4,679 | 23% |
| Russian | 1,891 | 9% |
| Polish | 1,125 | 6% |
| Arabic | 1,077 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nonna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, de nonnus, neuvième. Fête : 5 (18) août. Nonna est son équivalent français. Fête : 5 août.
as a nameRussian Names
In Dutch, a (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite feminine singular of nonne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, grandmother, granny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 13 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nonna Auskáb. 1923CZCzech physician
- Nonna Mordyukovab. 1925RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Nonna Bannisterb. 1927USRussian-born American author and Holocaust survivor (1927-2004)
- Nonna Bakun-Czubarowb. 1937PLPolish geologist
- Nonna Karakashyanb. 1940RUSoviet chess player
- Nonna Mayerb. 1948FRFrench political scientist (born 1948)
- Nonna Grishayevab. 1971RURussian actress and singer
- Nonna Debonneb. 1985FRFrench footballer
- Nonna Bellab. 2000TRTurkish singer (born 2000)
- Nonna FernerUSAmerican actress and inventor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 571 | #18,582 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 272 | #864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 272 | #864 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 177 | #3,754 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 169 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 166 | #965 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 147 | #784 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 135 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 117 | #13,985 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 99 | #7,088 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 80 | #829 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #9,637 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nonna?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Nonna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nonna have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Nonna in Georgia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nona.
- Where is Nonna most common?
- Nonna is densest in Georgia, where the national register counts about 1 in 242 people carrying it.
- How common is Nonna compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Nonna is the 66th most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
- Is Nonna a male or female name?
- Nonna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Nonna mean?
- Recorded meaning: "God-blessed, clean, light."
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nonna” — the 66th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.