Jonia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɲiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jonia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 630K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Ionie
- TZTanzania≈1 in 41K
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 Jonia 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ionie in GB United Kingdom, JM Jamaica, MA Morocco and 2 more and Ionia in US United States.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jonia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Jonia | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 336 | 1 in 630K | 407 | Jonia | 36 |
| US United States | — | 314as Ionie | 1 in 1.1M | 308 | Ionia | 126 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Ionie | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 879K | — | Ionie | 45 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Ionie | 8 |
| LS Lesotho | #513 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Ionie | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5as Ionie | 1 in 150K | 5 | Ionie | 2 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Jonia 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.
In Finnish, partitive singular of Joni
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jacob Joniab. 1966Danish novelist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 407 | #8,576 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 389 | #16,751 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 336 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 326 | #17,615 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 279 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 206 | #37,262 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 194 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 125 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 85 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 69 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 59 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jonia?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɲiə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jonia a male or female name?
- Jonia is a female 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 Jonia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Jonia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jonia.
- How common is the name Jonia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 336 people named Jonia in 2022, about 1 in 630 thousand residents.
- How common is Jonia compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Jonia is the 513th most common given name of 1,237 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jonia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joniaThe 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, “Jonia” — the 513th most common given name in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.