Meaning and history
From Ancient Greek ἴον (ion), meaning “violet flower,” this name belonged to a sea nymph in Greek mythology and has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 19th century, possibly inspired by the Greek place name Ionia, a region on the west coast of Asia Minor.
20062006: 17 births, rank #7,142
2007: 16 births, rank #7,733
2008: 18 births, rank #7,073
2009: 19 births, rank #6,811
2010: 25 births, rank #5,414
20112011: 26 births, rank #5,207
2012: 25 births, rank #5,398
2013: 22 births, rank #5,834
2014: 18 births, rank #6,713
2015: 26 births, rank #5,127
20162016: 23 births, rank #5,622
2017: 18 births, rank #6,531
2018: 23 births, rank #5,454
2019: 19 births, rank #6,176
2020: 20 births, rank #5,850
20212021: 16 births, rank #6,967
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: 14 births, rank #7,640
2024: 13 births, rank #7,967
20252025: 15 births, rank #7,133
Ione rose from #952 to #938 for girls between 1942 and 1943. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 367 births.