Jonah

girls:

727 births since 1964

#4989 (13th percentile)

boys:

79.5k births since 1880

#361 (92nd percentile)

overall:

80.2k births since 1880

#797 (90th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonah".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
727
Peak Births
36
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1964
Peak Percentile
3.2%
Current Percentile
3.0%
Peak Rank
#760
Current Rank
#919
Female statistics
Total Births
79,504
Peak Births
2,981
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
86.8%
Current Percentile
86.8%
Peak Rank
#121
Current Rank
#121
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jonah

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jonah. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Jonah is pronounced as JOH-nuh.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jonah. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jonah, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JOH-a-nuh (3 syllables)
6 names 119.3k births
JH OW1 AE0 N AH0
JOH-uh-nuh (3 syllables)
8 names 9.2k births
JH OW1 AH0 N AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.