Giona
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Jonah, the prophet Jonah
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/d͡ʒona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
42 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Jonah, the prophet Jonah
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giona 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 42 | Giona | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | Giona | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | — | 68 | Giona | 14 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Giona | 14 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Giona | 9 |
42 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Giona is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Colomba
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giona A. Nazzarob. 1965ITItalian film critic
- Giona Tuccinib. 1974ITItalian litterary critic
- Giona Cividinob. 1974ITItalian bobsledder
- Giona Ostinellib. 1986CHSwiss–Italian composer
- Giona Terzo Ortenzib. 1996ITItalian ice dancer
- Giona Leiboldb. 2000DEGerman-American soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 81 | #211 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 68 | #229 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 54 | #262 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #74,979 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #19,144 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Giona mean, and where does it come from?
- Jonah, the prophet Jonah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Giona?
- A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒona/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Giona a male or female name?
- Giona is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Giona?
- In the etymology graph, Yunus, Jonas and Jonah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Giona have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 people named Giona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giona.
- Where is Giona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giona is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Giona?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 42 people named Giona in 2022, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Giona?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gionaThe 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, “Giona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.