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Jonalyn

Girls' name

Blend of Jonah and Lyn

Jonalyn has been given to 223 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Jonalyn, 2019

1 in 694,000

Jonalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jonalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Jonah and Lyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jonalyn means

Jonalyn is a blend of Jonah and Lyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonalyn is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonah and Lyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 223 girls were recorded with the name Jonalyn between 1951 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1970; its best national rank was #4,878 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jonalyn?

Jonalyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonalyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonalyn was born before 1989 — so the typical Jonalyn is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
223
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Jonalyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (11)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,878
1970

Spellings of Jonalyn

Jonalyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 57.9% against Jonalyn's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jonalyn around the world

Where Jonalyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jonalyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,878
1970
Peak year
1970
11 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
223
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jonalyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jonalyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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