Giona
Giona was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 59 Americans have been recorded with it between 2002 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giona mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Giona is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,698, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2008, the peak
Giona peaked in 2008, when 9 girls were given it, #11,927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,698 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,587 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,264 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,927 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,086 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,134 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,780 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,620 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,191 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Giona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Giona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giona, and how old are they?
An estimated 58 Americans named Giona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
How common is the spelling Giona?
Giona is a less common spelling of Gionna: SSA has recorded 59 Giona and 964 Gionna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 284,312 babies since 1880, Giona is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,090 babies recorded by SSA was a Giona (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Giona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Giona and names like it
- Compare Giona and GionnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGiona peaked in 2008.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Giona: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Giona.
- Names starting with GMost given first.