girls:
196 births since 1909
#5520 (3rd percentile)
overall:
196 births since 1909
#7543 (3rd percentile)
The name Liona is the #7,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 196 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,520 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 196 births since 1909.
Liona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (first recorded for girls in 1909). Birth data for Liona is available in 26 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Liona reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #922) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liona ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 42.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liona".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Liona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Liona is pronounced as lee-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-oh-nuh, at 25.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 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.
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