Jona
Recorded 1922–2025 · United States
Jona was most popular in 1964, when 57 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,407 that year. In 2025 it ranked #10,631, with 19 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,277 people named Jona.
Jona over time
How old is the name Jona?
Jona first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1922, which makes it about 103 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 90 of the 104 years since.
How many people are named Jona?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,277 American births named Jona between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,109 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Jona in 2025?
19 American babies were named Jona in 2025, ranking #10,631 that year.
Is Jona getting more or less popular?
Jona is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 31 births a year, against 25 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +23% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Jona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Jona is a unisex name — 76.9% of the 2,277 Americans given it were girls and 23.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 2017 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 37% girls and 63% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Jona?
Roughly 2,109 Americans named Jona are alive today — 93% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 42 years old, and half are between 20 and 58. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Jona is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org