Jonita
Jonita was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 799 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,751, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1952, the peak
Jonita peaked in 1952, when 30 girls were given it, #1,838 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,751 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,513 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,209 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,805 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,454 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,467 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,056 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,775 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,758 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,175 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 18 | #4,727 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,158 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,573 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,342 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,052 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,478 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,083 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,057 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,357 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,554 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,533 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,962 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,266 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,421 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,492 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,850 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,392 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,306 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,880 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,851 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,095 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,699 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,798 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,632 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,856 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,732 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,088 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,114 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,769 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,914 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,803 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,868 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,768 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,291 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,949 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,746 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,838 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,602 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,540 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,745 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,387 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,568 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,298 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,670 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,529 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,990 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,087 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,489 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,602 | 6.4 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,578 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,304 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,579 | 6.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,747 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jonita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonita, and how old are they?
An estimated 666 Americans named Jonita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 666 people named Jonita (660 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 704 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,276 babies since 1880, Jonita is the second most given (35% of them).
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 Jonita
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 Jonita and names like it
- Compare Jonita and JonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJonita peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonita since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Jonita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jonita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.