girls:
1.7k births since 1933
#4035 (29th percentile)
boys:
487 births since 1922
#4099 (11th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1922
#5571 (28th percentile)
The name Jona is the #5,571 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,223 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 28.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,035 (29.4% percentile) for all time with 1,736 births since 1933. For boys, it ranks #4,099 (10.6% percentile) for all time with 487 births since 1922.
Jona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1933 for girls). Birth data for Jona is available in 88 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (84 years for girls and 44 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jona has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 45.2% of babies named Jona were girls.
For girls, Jona reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #732) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jona ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 37.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jona reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #881) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jona ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 92.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jona".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jona is pronounced as JOH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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