Given name & surname

Lono

“news”

Lono is a masculine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Lono goes back to a word meaning “news.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Lono comes from Hawaiian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Lono through the years

Babies since 1880
15
15 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2018
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01232025Highest share 20220.0
Lono in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2018–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 284 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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Sibling ideas

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