US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Jonah name popularity

Jonah has been given to 86,075 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2008, when 2,998 babies got the name, and its best rank was #211 in 2023.

In 2025, 2,867 babies were named Jonah (#222 in the country), 4% below the peak. That is down 2% from 2015.

Almost every Jonah is a boy.

An estimated 84K people named Jonah are alive in the US today, with a median age of 15.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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