girls:
12.1k births since 1880
#1424 (75th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2008
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
12.1k births since 1880
#2387 (69th percentile)
The name Iona is the #2,387 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,128 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,424 (75.1% percentile) for all time with 12,123 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2008.
Iona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2008 for boys).
The name Iona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Iona reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 49.4% percentile (ranked #299) with 336 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 336 births per million (ranked 49.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Iona ranks #896 for girls (5.4% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Iona reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #907) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iona".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Iona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.0% confident that Iona is pronounced as ai-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-oh-nuh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY0 OW1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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