Entry № 7553 · Latin origin

Nonna Nonna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"The ninth-born"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the ninth-born".

Nonna is a name of Latin origin, meaning the ninth-born.

The ninth-born — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Nonna
Transliteration
Nonna
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Nonna stands.

Nonna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nonnas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nonna.

The number behind Nonna.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nonna reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.