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Vonetta

About 870 American babies have been named Vonetta since 1921, most of them around 1973. It has not appeared in the national data since 1994. About 800 Vonettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Vonetta

By the numbers

Total US births
870
Estimated living today
800
Median age today
50
Peak year
1973
Best rank
815th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1921

How old the living Vonettas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 870 babies given the name since 1921, about 800 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Vonetta is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Vonetta is most concentrated in North Carolina (3.7×), New York (2.6×), Ohio (1.5×), Illinois (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1973

The most popular girls’ names the year Vonetta peaked:

All the names of 1973

Related names

Vonetta against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.