Ione
Ione is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 327th, in 1916–1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920367 births
- Best rank
- #327first in 1916
- Since 1880
- 9,989people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,989 girls have been named Ione in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 367 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 367 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ione | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 189 | |
| 1890s | 538 | |
| 1900s | 881 | |
| 1910s | 2,561 | |
| 1920s | 2,677 | |
| 1930s | 1,418 | |
| 1940s | 626 | |
| 1950s | 369 | |
| 1960s | 162 | |
| 1970s | 44 | |
| 1980s | 26 | |
| 1990s | 77 | |
| 2000s | 133 | |
| 2010s | 225 | |
| 2020s | 63 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Ione was the 342nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Ione
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Inezpeak 1920
- Leonapeak 1918
- Edythepeak 1918
- Leolapeak 1920
- Eldapeak 1916
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Fernpeak 1918
- Verdapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.