Girls' name · since 1942
Jonella
95 babies named Jonella in U.S. Social Security records since 1942, with the highest year being 1952. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 95
- total births
- 1942–2013
- years on record
- 1950s
- peak decade
- 36%
- born in that decade
Jonella is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 95 have been recorded since 1942.
Jonella has 95 recorded births among girls since 1942, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1942 to 2013.
- 95 total births
- 1942–2013 years on record
- 1950s peak decade
- 36% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jonella's 95 recorded births place it above 62% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jonella's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jonella's SSA record in two at 1965 and the more recent half accounts for 51% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 49%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1945, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1952 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jonella popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1942–2013
- Peak year (1952)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 72 years of records
Jonella by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1950s was Jonella's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Jonella births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 13
1940s
13 births
- 1950s
1950s
34 births
- 1960s 13
1960s
13 births
- 1970s
1970s
18 births
- 1980s 7
1980s
7 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 34 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Jonella's decade-level peak was the 1950s (34 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1942–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jonella: Baby Name Since 1942 - 95 Births, Peak 1952." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jonella. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jonella draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.