Jona
Jona is a girl's name that peaked in 1964, when it was the 1,497th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 2,100 Jonas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jona boys named Jona
Girls and boys called Jona
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Jona crossed from girls to boys in 2017, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 74% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 47 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,277
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 1,497th
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 1,751 / 526
How old the living Jonas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,277 babies given the name since 1922, about 2,100 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jonas
- Jona Senilagakali (1929–2011)Prime Minister of Fiji
People named Jona with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jona is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jona is most concentrated in California (6.2×), Texas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Jona peaked:
Jona elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Jona | 518 | 177th |
| Belgium boys | Jona | 315 | 560th |
| France boys | Jona | 215 | 2,198th |
| Switzerland girls | Jona | 181 | 547th |
| Belgium girls | Jona | 86 | 647th |
| England and Wales boys | Jona | 64 | 3,040th |
| England and Wales girls | Jona | 30 | 4,763rd |
| France girls | Jona | 25 | 5,954th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jona: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jona | 490 | 0.039% | 118th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Jona | 167 | 0.013% | 402nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jona | 13 | 0.003% | 606th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Jona | 12 | 0.003% | 493rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jona | 13 | 0.020% | 113th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Jona | 2 | 0.003% | 170th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Jona | 2 | 0.054% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jona is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.08% of children were given it – 47 of them.
Jona: rank by region
In 2025, Jona was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Jona | 461 | 5 |
In 2019, Jona was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Jona | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jona by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 270 | 63rd |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 9 | 507th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jona among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jona | 92 | 107 |
| Finland girls | Jona | 19 | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jona against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.