Iona
About Iona
This name of a small island off the coast of Scotland is trending upwards along with other I names.
Pronounced eye-OH-nuh.
As of October 2026, Iona ranked #2667 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #318 in 1918, Nameberry popularity #861.
Editor's take: The name Iona is a girl's name of Scottish origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,900 | 59 | 33 |
| 2015 | #2,724 | 65 | 36.4 |
| 2016 | #2,878 | 59 | 33.3 |
| 2017 | #3,268 | 49 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | #2,570 | 68 | 40 |
| 2019 | #2,440 | 73 | 43.5 |
| 2020 | #3,073 | 52 | 32.2 |
| 2021 | #2,615 | 66 | 40.2 |
| 2022 | #2,411 | 76 | 46.3 |
| 2023 | #2,992 | 56 | 34.9 |
| 2024 | #2,777 | 61 | 37.6 |
| 2025 | #2,667 | 65 | 40.4 |
World rankings
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Iona on lists
Famous Ionas
- Iona Margaret Balfour (Archibald) Opie
English folklorist
- Iona Victoria Campagnolo
Canadian politician; 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
- (Elizabeth) Iona Brown
English violinist
- Iona Wynter
Jamaican triathlete
- Olivia Iona Louise Langdon
wife of American novelist Mark Twain
- Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir
Russian male Red Army commander
Iona in pop culture
- Iona
character in film "Pretty in Pink"
- Iona McNair
character in 'Sky Hawk' by Gill Lewis
- Iona Payne aka Molly Dawes
character on TV's "Forever"
- Iona MacLean
character on British TV series "Monarch of the Glen"
- Iona
Shield of Emeria, angel in Zendikar, a Magic: The Gathering expansion set
- Iona
a Fog Mental Model in manga/anime Arpeggio of Blue Steel
- Hikawa Iona
character in anime HappinessCharge PreCure!
- Iona
in Celtic lore, one of Earth's "thin places" where the veil with heaven is worn thin. A deeply spiritual spot, inhabited since prehistoric times & always deemed sacred , long before the coming of Christianity. A testimony to this is the island's name itself: Celtic *yewo "yew"
- Iona Monastery
Ireland, birthplace of the Book of Kells
- Iona College
New York, USA
- Iona
also a Russian variation of Jonah