Yonah
Yonah was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,988 among boys’ names; 937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yonah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yonah?
#2,988 among boys’ names, 2025
Yonah rose from #4,877 in 2015 to #2,988 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 24.6 per million.
43 babies in 2024, the peak
Yonah peaked in 2024, when 43 boys were given it, #2,954 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,988 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,954 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,561 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,335 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,355 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,132 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,489 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,518 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,738 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,617 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,877 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,781 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,656 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,888 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,973 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,234 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,470 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,387 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,120 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,097 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,808 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,998 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,607 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,786 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,611 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,561 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,878 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #4,010 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,261 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,542 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,842 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,744 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,990 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,643 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,621 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,804 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,883 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,411 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,129 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,263 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,394 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,325 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,627 | 6.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,145 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,229 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,759 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,999 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yonah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 937 Americans recorded as Yonah, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yonah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yonah, and how old are they?
An estimated 920 Americans named Yonah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 725 people named Yonah (95 women and girls, 630 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 699 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above 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).
Where are babies named Yonah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #843 | 6.9× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,179 | 3.2× |
Where Yonah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yonah is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 6.9 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 Yonah 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,886 babies since 1880, Yonah is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 124 babies (34%), 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 Yonah
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 Yonah and names like it
- Compare Yonah and YonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYonah peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yonah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yonah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yonah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.