Nona

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 415 words | Copyright

Nona ♀ From the feminine form of the Latin ordinal nonus ‘ninth’, sometimes used as a given name in Victorian times for the ninth-born child in a family if it was a girl, or even for the ninth-born girl (compare Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, and Octavius). At the present day, when few people have nine children, let alone nine daughters, it has passed into more general, if only occasional, use.

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