girls:
28 births since 1976
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
27.5k births since 1880
#690 (85th percentile)
overall:
27.5k births since 1880
#1532 (80th percentile)
The name Jonas is the #1,532 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,535 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #690 (85.0% percentile) for all time with 27,507 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1976.
Jonas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1976 for girls).
The name Jonas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jonas reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 70.6% percentile (ranked #267) with 576 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 576 births per million (ranked 70.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jonas ranks #466 for boys (48.9% percentile) with 303 births per million, which is 52.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jonas reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #774) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonas".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jonas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jonas is pronounced as JOH-nuhs, which has 2 syllables.
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