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Yonas

#10,649 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jonah

Yonas has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #10,649 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Yonas, 2025

1 in 474,000

Yonas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yonas: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jonah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yonas means

Yonas is a form of Jonah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yonas → 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, 416 boys were recorded with the name Yonas between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,449 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,563 in 2020 to #10,649 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,597 in 2015 to #10,649 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 Yonas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,649
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yonas 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yonas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yonass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yonas was born before 2007 — so the typical Yonas is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
416
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Yonas 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
−4,471
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−86
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−52
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 2003 (22)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,449
1991

Spellings of Yonas

Yonas is not the most common spelling — Jonah is, with 44.6% against Yonas's 0.22%.

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 Yonas is used

Across 1910–2025, Yonas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Yonas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yonas around the world

Where Yonas 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
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #3,983
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yonas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,649
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 86
Best rank ever
#3,449
1991
Peak year
2003
22 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
416
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Yonas

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

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Sibling names for Yonas

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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