Jonah — #126 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jonah

The Social Security Administration has registered 82,424 babies named Jonah between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jonah currently holds the #126 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 2,981 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jonah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 28,051 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jonah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 9,120 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jonah in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jonah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 82,424 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.