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Jonna

#9,137 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Johanna

Jonna has been given to 5,564 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #9,137 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Jonna, 2025

1 in 301,000

Jonna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jonna: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Johanna

Norwegian

What Jonna means

Jonna is a short form of Johanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jonna → Johanna. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonna is used in English, Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna and Johnna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Jonna is pronounced /ˈjonːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,564 girls were recorded with the name Jonna between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 1963; its best national rank was #624 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,165 in 2020 to #9,137 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,778 in 2015 to #9,137 in 2025.

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 Jonna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,137
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonna 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonna was born before 1973 — so the typical Jonna is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,201
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Choose a decade

1960s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (1,450).

Is Jonna 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−972
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,359
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1963 (261)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#624
1963

Spellings of Jonna

Jonna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.9% against Jonna's 0.14%.

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.

Where Jonna is used

Across 1910–2025, Jonna was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 69,760 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Colorado1 in 33,333
  4. 4Indiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Kansas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Missouri1 in 33,333
  7. 7Iowa1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jonna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jonna around the world

Where Jonna 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
    1962–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Notable people named Jonna

People whose public names include Jonna, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jonna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jonna. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanaJaneJeanYanaIvanaJennaJuanaIvankaIvannaJeanneJohnnaJuanitaGiovannaJónaSiân

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jonna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,137
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 972
Best rank ever
#624
1963
Peak year
1963
261 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,564
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Jonna

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

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Names with a curve like Jonna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jonna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jonna

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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