Jonahs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jonahs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.9Kas Jonah(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.2Kas Jonah
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.2Kas Jonah
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jonahs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
63,551 named Jonah, 2020
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est., as Jonah
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jonah in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jonahs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 63,551as Jonah | 1 in 5.2K | 63K | Jonah | 455 |
| NG Nigeria | #781 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jonah | 69 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Jonah | 92 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Jonah | 125 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 36 | Jonah | 140 |
| SE Sweden | — | 632as Jonah | 1 in 16K | 632 | Jonah | 25 |
| NO Norway | — | 461as Jonah | 1 in 12K | 1.6K | Jonah | 14 |
63,551 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jonahs a male or female name?
- Jonahs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jonahs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Jonah, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jonahs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,551 people named Jonah in 2020, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Jonahs compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Jonahs is the 781st most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jonahs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jonahsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jonahs” — the 781st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.