Jonas

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Jonas boys named Jonas

By the numbers

Total US births

28,588

Estimated living today

25,000

Median age today

18

Peak year

2008

Best rank

273rd

Rank in 2025

599th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

28 / 28,560

How old the living Jonases are

born that year still alive today

Of the 28,588 babies given the name since 1880, about 25,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 810 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Latin Iōnās, from Koine Greek Ἰωνᾶς, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹנָה (“dove”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Jonass

• Jonas Salk (1914–1995)Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine
• Jonas Gahr Støre (born 1960)Prime Minister of Norway since 2021
• Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934–2002)Angolan political and military leader
• Jonas Hector (born 1990)German association football player
• Jonás Gutiérrez (born 1983)Argentine footballer
• Jonas Vingegaard (born 1996)Danish cyclist
• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866)Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller
• Jonas Hofmann (born 1992)German association football player

People named Jonas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jonas is most common

• CA2,571
• TX1,968
• PA1,882
• NY1,715
• OH1,349
• FL1,182
• IL871
• NC825
• IN755
• MI668

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jonas is most concentrated in Utah (2.5×), Pennsylvania (1.5×), Florida (1.5×), Arizona (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular boys’ names the year Jonas peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Alexander

All the names of 2008

Jonas elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jonas: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Jonas is most concentrated in Obwalden, where 0.90% of children were given it – 73 of them.

Jonas: rank by region

In 2025, Jonas was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Jonas was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2023, Jonas was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jonas appears in the lists for Province of Liège (133rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Jonas by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Jonas among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Jonas lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,689 men called Jonas were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Jonathan
• Jon
• Jonah
• Jonathon
• Joni
• Jonnie
• Jonna
• Jones
• Jonatan
• Jonny
• Jonelle
• Jonell

Jonas against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Jonas vs Jonathan
• Jonas vs Jon
• Jonas vs Jonah
• Jonas vs Jonathon
• Jonas vs Joni
• Jonas vs Jonnie

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