Jonas

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: Jonah (a book of the Old Testament)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʒonɐs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jonas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 167(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 341
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

160,223 people, 2022

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
420 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JonasLatin(measured from records)
יונסHebrew(measured from records)
요나스Hangul(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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(measured from records)

from the biblical male personal name Jonas, from Hebrew Yona, literally ‘dove’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

How Jonas is read(measured from records)

Jonas is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese35%

    Jonah (a book of the Old Testament)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jonas in Spanish.

  • German13%

    Latinized form of the German given name Jobst in the example.

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • English13%

    from the biblical male personal name Jonas, from Hebrew Yona, literally ‘dove’.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • Swedish5.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jonas in Swedish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jonas 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.

Where Jonas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#202160,2231 in 1.3K165KJonas187
DE Germany#240≈62,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Jonas260
SE Sweden#21061,2211 in 16761KJonas121
US United States—23,9521 in 14K1.4MJonas420
DK Denmark—23,1141 in 25423K—5
LT Lithuania—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 168127K—6
NO Norway#62016,0191 in 34160KJonas73
CZ Czechia—10,4901 in 1K10K—3

160,223 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Registrų centras — top-50 given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jonas is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Jona, Jonna, Jönås, Jonás, Jôna

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Jonás, Jonáš

  • French given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Sweden

    Also written Jonàs, Jonás, Jónás, Jonáš, Jônàs

  • Czech given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Hungarian, Slovak

    Also written Jónás, Jonáš, Jonás, Jónáš, Jonaš

  • Finnish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Jönäs, Joñas, Jonás, Jönãs, Jonaš

  • Swahili given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, South Africa, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Jónas, Jonáš, Jónás, Joñas

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Jónas, Jonàs, Jonáš, Jonaš, Jónás

90 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jonas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Biblical: ‘dove’. See }Jonah in main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Variant of Jonah, from the New Testament Greek form of the name. Both Jonah and Jonas were used by the

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • respelling of Yonis, with Yiddish possessive -s.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1700180019002000Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, b. 1793Jonas Basanavičius, b. 1851Jonas Salk, b. 1914Jonas Mekas, b. 1922Jonas Savimbi, b. 1934Jonas Gahr Støre, b. 1960Basshunter, b. 1984Jonas Bloquet, b. 1992Jonas Valančiūnas, b. 1992Jonas Vingegaard, b. 1996

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)

InformalOlá Jonas,Hi Jonas, (English)

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 143 sources across 69 countries.

Official registers attesting Jonas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—165K#308
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022160K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—159K#211
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—127K#1
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—61K#58
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60K#32
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202040K—
LT LithuaniaVLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names)—35K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202024K#1,423
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—23K#26
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202516K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20205.7K—

Reference works 14

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

In which country does Jonas have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 160 thousand people named Jonas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jonas.
Where is Jonas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jonas is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 167 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
Where does the name Jonas come from?
from the biblical male personal name Jonas, from Hebrew Yona, literally ‘dove’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Jonas?
A machine transcription gives /ʒonɐs/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Jonas mean?
In Portuguese, Jonah (a book of the Old Testament)
Is Jonas a male or female name?
Jonas 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.
What are other forms of the name Jonas?
In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Jonas?
In Brazil, the national register counted 160,223 people named Jonas in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Jonas compared with other names?
In Brazil, Jonas is the 202nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jonas” — the 202nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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