Name meaning & stats
Iona
Iona means “island of the den of the brown bear”. 3,484 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
“island of the den of the brown bear”
Well documented
From a place name.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
3,484 US babies were named Iona between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Iona (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 55% of the family
- Iona 55%
- Iyonna 28%
- Iyona 8%
- Ionna 4%
- Yoona 2%
- Yonna 2%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)