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Vondal vs Vonna

American parents have registered 1,095 Vonnas since 1880, against 7 Vondals. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vondal against Vonna, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vondal Vonna

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

Vonna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1933, when Vondal had 7 and Vonna had 21.

Side by side

  Vondal Vonna
Total US births 71,095
Most in one year 736
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1620
Median age today 9270
Peak year 19331960
Best rank 3,004th boys1,887th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19331915
Girls / boys 0 / 71,095 / 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 Vondals alive today are over 92; half the Vonnas are over 70. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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