Girls' name · since 1970
Jonya
Jonya has 43 recorded births since 1970 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1973 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 43
- total births
- 1970–2006
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 88%
- born in that decade
Jonya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 43 recorded since 1970.
Jonya has 43 recorded births among girls since 1970, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1970 to 2006.
- 43 total births
- 1970–2006 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 88% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jonya's 43 recorded births place it above 49% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jonya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jonya's full recorded timeline at 1975, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1970, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1973 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jonya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–2006
- Peak year (1973)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Jonya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Jonya's strongest decade.
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 88% of all-time use.
Jonya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
38 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 38 births (88% of all-time use).
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- Jonya's decade-level peak was the 1970s (38 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- 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, 1970–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jonya: Baby Name Since 1970 - 43 Births, Peak 1973." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jonya. 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 Jonya 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.