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Nona Surname Meaning

Italian (Sicily): perhaps from Nona (Croatian Nin), a city in Dalmatia, used as a personal name bestowed on foundlings.

Assyrian/Chaldean: from a pet form of the Syriac personal name Yōnān ‘Jonah’ (see Yonan).

Alternatively, it may derive from a Syriac form of the personal name Nonnos (from Latin Nonnus),

borne by the bishop of Edessa, a Christian saint who flourished in the 5th century.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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Between 1962 and 2002, in the United States, Nona life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1995, and highest in 1989. The average life expectancy for Nona in 1962 was 64, and 78 in 2002.

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