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Yona

#6,128 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Jonah

Yona has been given to 823 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #6,128 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% boys, 41% girls all-time.

Babies named Yona, 2025

1 in 221,000

Yona over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yona over time

In 2025, Yona went to 55% girls and 45% boys.

19242025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yona: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jonah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yona means

Yona is a form of Jonah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yona → Jonah. The family’s meaning is “dove”, recorded in English with the source elements yônâh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 482 boys were recorded with the name Yona between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,686 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,031 in 2020 to #6,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,534 in 2015 to #6,128 in 2025.

In the United States, 341 girls were recorded with the name Yona between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,427 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,906 in 2020 to #6,536 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,806 in 2015 to #6,536 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.

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How common is Yona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,128
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yona was born before 2013 — so the typical Yona is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
482
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Yona 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
−2,442
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,097
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,406
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.4%
Peak was 2024 (31)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,686
2024

Spellings of Yona

Yona is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 27.3% against Yona's 0.05%.

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 Yona is used

Across 1910–2025, Yona was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 68,151 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Yona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yona around the world

Where Yona 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1991–2025
    #3,516
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yona by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,097
Best rank ever
#3,686
2024
Peak year
2024
31 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
482
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 370
Best rank ever
#4,427
1924
Peak year
2014
18 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
341
Count in 2025
18

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