girls:
33 births since 1983
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
216 births since 1978
#4370 (5th percentile)
overall:
249 births since 1978
#7490 (3rd percentile)
The name Jonta is the #7,490 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 249 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,370 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 216 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1983.
Jonta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Jonta is available in 27 out of the 39 years between 1978 and 2016 (26 years for boys and 6 years for girls). 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 Jonta has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2016, 100.0% of babies named Jonta were boys.
For boys, Jonta reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #759) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Jonta reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #773) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonta".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jonta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Jonta is pronounced as JAHN-tuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAWN-tuh, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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