Jonas
Jonas was given to 476 boys in 2025, #599 among boys’ names; 28,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,700 Americans named Jonas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jonas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jonas is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “dove” (יוֹנָה).
From Latin Iōnās, from Koine Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jonas?
#599 among boys’ names, 2025
Jonas fell from #426 in 2015 to #599 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.38 to 0.28 per 1,000.
1,256 babies in 2008, the peak
Jonas peaked in 2008, when 1,256 boys were given it, #274 among boys’ names. The 476 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 476 | #599 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 534 | #556 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 556 | #532 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 540 | #553 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 562 | #523 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 609 | #486 | 0.35 |
| 2019 | 662 | #453 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 704 | #433 | 0.39 |
| 2017 | 695 | #446 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 821 | #388 | 0.43 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 724 | #426 | 0.38 |
| 2014 | 566 | #498 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 573 | #481 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 589 | #464 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 538 | #489 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 595 | #449 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 812 | #375 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 1,256 | #274 | 0.62 |
| 2007 | 979 | #326 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 861 | #353 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 756 | #384 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 577 | #449 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 554 | #456 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 584 | #423 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 452 | #508 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 444 | #511 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 440 | #496 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 418 | #510 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 360 | #548 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 333 | #557 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 257 | #651 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 234 | #678 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 182 | #781 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 152 | #856 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 163 | #808 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 178 | #758 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 164 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 176 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 203 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 178 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 196 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 223 | #569 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 277 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 285 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 330 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 341 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 212 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 177 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 185 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 192 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 169 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 163 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 182 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 166 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 229 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 193 | #580 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 138 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 58 | #962 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 67 | #882 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 79 | #824 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 87 | #800 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 89 | #805 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 67 | #918 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 62 | #968 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 70 | #906 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 62 | #979 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 53 | #1,055 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 59 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 77 | #856 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 58 | #990 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 65 | #892 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 58 | #933 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 66 | #862 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 64 | #857 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 60 | #893 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 70 | #815 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 67 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 54 | #899 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 44 | #969 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 62 | #800 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 52 | #926 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 53 | #917 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 55 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 52 | #879 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 53 | #839 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 48 | #918 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 45 | #936 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 52 | #850 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 51 | #888 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 66 | #758 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 50 | #880 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 64 | #796 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 57 | #834 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 77 | #715 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 69 | #775 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 70 | #776 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 70 | #792 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 97 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 70 | #790 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 70 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 63 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 78 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 73 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 84 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 91 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 95 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 73 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 84 | #638 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 81 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 60 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 51 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 50 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 31 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 18 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 19 | #628 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 30 | #443 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 29 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1906 | 18 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1905 | 19 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 22 | #460 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 26 | #388 | 0.22 |
| 1902 | 27 | #384 | 0.22 |
| 1901 | 17 | #480 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 31 | #408 | 0.21 |
| 1899 | 9 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 18 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 19 | #446 | 0.17 |
| 1896 | 21 | #433 | 0.18 |
| 1895 | 26 | #373 | 0.22 |
| 1894 | 13 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1893 | 26 | #354 | 0.23 |
| 1892 | 24 | #389 | 0.20 |
| 1891 | 18 | #423 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 22 | #380 | 0.20 |
| 1889 | 25 | #356 | 0.23 |
| 1888 | 30 | #339 | 0.25 |
| 1887 | 24 | #335 | 0.24 |
| 1886 | 20 | #399 | 0.18 |
| 1885 | 23 | #370 | 0.21 |
| 1884 | 35 | #295 | 0.31 |
| 1883 | 22 | #362 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 26 | #349 | 0.23 |
| 1881 | 25 | #327 | 0.25 |
| 1880 | 28 | #323 | 0.25 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonas has been given almost only to boys: 28 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jonas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonas, and how old are they?
24,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 28,588 Americans ever recorded as Jonas. The median Jonas alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 23,952 people named Jonas (94 women and girls, 23,858 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 185 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 796 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,360 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jonas born?
The states with the most babies named Jonas are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #604 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 41 | #696 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #306 | 1.5× |
| New York | 31 | #519 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 31 | #563 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 20 | #527 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 19 | #420 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 17 | #502 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 15 | #428 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 14 | #658 | 0.7× |
Where Jonas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jonas is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jonas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 34,321 babies since 1880, Jonas is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 476 of their 808 babies (59%), again the most given.
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 Jonas
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 Jonas and names like it
- Compare Jonas and JonesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJonas peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonas since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jonas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jonas.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jonas alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.