Ona

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Oña in EC Ecuador, AR Argentina, BO Bolivia and 3 more.

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●

Attested across 35 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ona is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name2.5K records spelled Ona4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Ecuador

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Oña, Öñá

• Norwegian given name1.3K records spelled Ona8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Iceland

  Languages: Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

  Also written Oña, Õñå

• a separate surname1.2K records spelled Ona5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ecuador, United States, Spain, Bolivia

  Also written Oña, Ōna, Óna, Onã

• Hindi given name892 records spelled Ona7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Ecuador

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Oña, Öña, Oná, Õñá

• Turkish given name617 records spelled Ona6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Türkiye, Nigeria

  Also written Oña, Öna, Oná

• Polish given name532 records spelled Ona12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Spain

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

  Also written Oña, Óňa, Öñâ, Oňa, Oná

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ona 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 Lithuanian, Hannah (biblical character).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, S. American people

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Llena Orabel, Orabell, Orabella, Orabelle, de gracia

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• the one, united.

  as a name·African Names

• Fire.

  as a name·The African book of names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Oney Judgeb. 1773USnot in their usual namefugitive enslaved person
• Ona Šimaitėb. 1894LTLithuanian librarian, activist, and Holocaust survivor (1894–1970)
• Ona Munsonb. 1903USAmerican actress (1903-1955)
• Ona Zeeb. 1951USAmerican pornographic actress
• Ona Juknevičienėb. 1955LTLithuanian politician
• Ona Grauerb. 1978MXCanadian actress
• Ona Meseguerb. 1988ESSpanish water polo player
• Ona Carbonellb. 1990ESSpanish synchronized swimmer
• Ona Batlleb. 1999ESSpanish association football player
• Ona Baradadb. 2004ESSpanish association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 517 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ona?

We estimate roughly 115 thousand people bear Ona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ona have the most bearers?

We estimate about 102 thousand people bear Ona in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ona.

Where is Ona most common?

Ona is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 people carrying it.

How common is Ona compared with other names?

In Lithuania, Ona is the 2nd most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.

Is Ona a male or female name?

Ona 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 Ona mean?

Recorded meaning: Iggara: 'fire'; also Latin-derived female name meaning 'the one, united'