About the name Lona
Lona belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Lona first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #299 in 1890, and in 2024 13 babies received the name — 10,895 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.