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Jonna

About 5,564 American babies have been named Jonna since 1928, most of them around 1963. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 5,000 Jonnas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jonna

By the numbers

Total US births
5,564
Estimated living today
5,000
Median age today
50
Peak year
1963
Best rank
623rd
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1928

How old the living Jonnas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,564 babies given the name since 1928, about 5,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 290 of them are children and 680 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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

Variant of Johnna; compare Jon.

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

Notable Jonnas

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

Where Jonna is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jonna is most concentrated in Oklahoma (4.2×), Missouri (2.8×), Colorado (2.4×), California (2.3×).

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

Names of 1963

The most popular girls’ names the year Jonna peaked:

All the names of 1963

Jonna elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Sweden girls Jonna 1,310 68th
Switzerland girls Jonna 178 321st

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.

Jonna: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Jonna 176 0.014% 238th
French girls Switzerland Jonna 2 0.000% 689th

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, Jonna is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 45 of them.

Jonna by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 78 185th

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

Jonna 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Jonna 8,818 9,222

A count of people on a register – 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.

Related names

Jonna against another name

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

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.