Jonas — #556 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jonas

The Social Security Administration has registered 28,064 babies named Jonas between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jonas currently holds the #556 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 1,256 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jonas performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,265 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jonas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,522 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Jonas in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jonas 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 28,064 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.