Meaning not yet researched.
Jonah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,828 in 2025. Its best rank was #124 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #124 in 2023; #128 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Jonah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#128 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #124.
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Jonah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,828 boys in 2025. Peak: #124 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 2,981 (2008).
In 2025, 2,828 US boys were named Jonah, making it the 128th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #126 in 2024. That is 65 fewer than the 2,893 boys named Jonah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #124, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,981, in 2008. For comparison, it was #143 in 2015 and #1,589 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jonah in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 86,075 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 28,290 babies named Jonah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27,655 US boys were named Jonah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 2,900. In 2025 that was about 1 in 604 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jonah ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #68 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jonas (28,588 babies since 1880), Joana (7,944 babies since 1880), Jonna (5,564 babies since 1880) and Johna (2,462 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jonae, Johnae and Jonay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jonae (1,142), Johnae (724), Jonay (161), Johnay (152), Jonai (152), Junah (125), Jonaya (74), Jonaye (20), Junae (20), Johnai (10), Johnah (7), Johanah (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jonah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 12 | #68 | #42 |
| Maine | 16 | #77 | #168 |
| Ohio | 133 | #94 | #129 |
| Kentucky | 55 | #96 | #116 |
| Wisconsin | 62 | #97 | #150 |
| Kansas | 37 | #98 | #163 |
| New York | 171 | #102 | #138 |
| Connecticut | 36 | #104 | #157 |
| Arkansas | 32 | #107 | #123 |
| Michigan | 88 | #111 | #139 |
| Washington | 69 | #113 | #151 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #113 | #167 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #114 | #77 |
| Virginia | 75 | #114 | #130 |
| Florida | 186 | #116 | #144 |
| Pennsylvania | 108 | #118 | #123 |
| Indiana | 67 | #119 | #144 |
| New Jersey | 80 | #119 | #170 |
| New Mexico | 17 | #119 | #147 |
| Missouri | 60 | #120 | #174 |
| Maryland | 48 | #122 | #166 |
| South Carolina | 44 | #123 | #174 |
| Alaska | 7 | #124 | #82 |
| Texas | 311 | #125 | #143 |
| Illinois | 89 | #129 | #147 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #133 | #62 |
| Tennessee | 72 | #133 | #119 |
| Georgia | 89 | #135 | #159 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #138 | #206 |
| Nevada | 23 | #138 | #168 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #140 | #133 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #142 | #172 |
| California | 267 | #143 | #156 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #144 | #178 |
| Mississippi | 22 | #146 | #177 |
| North Carolina | 88 | #146 | #104 |
| Minnesota | 44 | #147 | #154 |
| Iowa | 28 | #151 | #152 |
| Utah | 35 | #154 | #145 |
| Alabama | 36 | #159 | #113 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #159 | #129 |
| Arizona | 53 | #167 | #142 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #168 | #131 |
| Idaho | 15 | #182 | #112 |
| Delaware | 6 | #187 | — |
| Massachusetts | 34 | #190 | #150 |
| Colorado | 36 | #193 | #142 |
| Oregon | 19 | #226 | #151 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,803 | 2,828 | #128 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,216 | 2,893 | #126 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,318 | 2,900 | #124 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,564 | 2,754 | #135 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,771 | 2,739 | #138 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,555 | 2,821 | #128 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,880 | 2,693 | #139 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,031 | 2,725 | #145 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,583 | 2,524 | #154 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,207 | 2,778 | #150 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,561 | 2,913 | #143 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,220 | 2,920 | #138 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,865 | 2,903 | #132 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,281 | 2,955 | #128 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,827 | 2,867 | #144 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,869 | 2,775 | #143 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,503 | 2,718 | #147 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,559 | 2,981 | #136 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,446 | 2,510 | #165 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,234 | 2,411 | #170 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,978 | 2,222 | #184 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,345 | 2,296 | #177 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,378 | 2,431 | #164 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,765 | 2,313 | #167 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,117 | 1,982 | #187 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,072 | 1,833 | #192 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,767 | 1,710 | #197 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,920 | 1,465 | #219 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,111 | 1,621 | #196 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,524 | 1,569 | #197 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,259 | 1,371 | #215 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,836 | 1,179 | #245 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,327 | 449 | #469 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,746 | 224 | #694 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,165 | 246 | #649 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,702 | 239 | #654 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,452 | 260 | #613 |
| 1988 | — | — | 243 | #603 |
| 1987 | — | — | 290 | #529 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,064 | 235 | #580 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,213 | 267 | #531 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,550 | 269 | #521 |
| 1983 | — | — | 260 | #518 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,126 | 287 | #501 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,489 | 384 | #425 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,700 | 394 | #412 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,395 | 390 | #403 |
| 1978 | — | — | 168 | #647 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,880 | 226 | #557 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,904 | 185 | #597 |
| 1975 | — | — | 131 | #723 |
| 1974 | — | — | 151 | #656 |
| 1973 | — | — | 130 | #705 |
| 1972 | — | — | 154 | #640 |
| 1971 | — | — | 162 | #647 |
| 1970 | — | — | 70 | #963 |
| 1969 | — | — | 44 | #1,192 |
| 1968 | — | — | 39 | #1,226 |
| 1967 | — | — | 30 | #1,397 |
| 1966 | — | — | 20 | #1,739 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,346 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,217 | 31 | #1,419 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,610 |
| 1962 | — | — | 33 | #1,379 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,799 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,541 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,743 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,570 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,500 |
| 1956 | — | — | 32 | #1,369 |
| 1955 | — | — | 43 | #1,144 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,731 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,346 |
| 1952 | — | — | 38 | #1,204 |
| 1951 | — | — | 36 | #1,231 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,589 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,853 |
| 1948 | — | — | 26 | #1,444 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,757 |
| 1946 | — | — | 26 | #1,395 |
| 1945 | — | — | 30 | #1,213 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,554 |
| 1943 | — | — | 31 | #1,250 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,399 |
| 1941 | — | — | 26 | #1,318 |
| 1940 | — | — | 29 | #1,266 |
| 1939 | — | — | 31 | #1,180 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,652 |
| 1937 | — | — | 24 | #1,390 |
| 1936 | — | — | 33 | #1,153 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,311 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,109 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,384 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,491 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,806 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,729 |
| 1929 | — | — | 27 | #1,399 |
| 1928 | — | — | 30 | #1,341 |
| 1927 | — | — | 29 | #1,392 |
| 1926 | — | — | 21 | #1,685 |
| 1925 | — | — | 33 | #1,270 |
| 1924 | — | — | 33 | #1,279 |
| 1923 | — | — | 32 | #1,289 |
| 1922 | — | — | 44 | #1,066 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,284 |
| 1920 | — | — | 47 | #1,012 |
| 1919 | — | — | 25 | #1,467 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,272 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,417 |
| 1916 | — | — | 32 | #1,167 |
| 1915 | — | — | 33 | #1,136 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,420 |
| 1913 | — | — | 18 | #1,228 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,246 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #777 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,509 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,582 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #645 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #905 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,334 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,034 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,302 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,213 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,082 |
| 1900 | — | — | 11 | #817 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #904 |
| 1898 | — | — | 8 | #848 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #1,011 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,180 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #935 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #872 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #832 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #735 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #705 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #846 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #984 |
| 1887 | — | — | 11 | #567 |
| 1885 | — | — | 16 | #469 |
| 1884 | — | — | 11 | #588 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #618 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,017 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #944 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #714 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).