Yona
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 58.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 31 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 482since 1982
Yona over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #4,855 | 19 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
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| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #6,385 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yona! It came in at #6,385, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yona
- 2,256 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #5,861)
- 1,006 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #5,861)
- 2,883 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2024 at #3,605 (31 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 55,577 boys born in 2024 were named Yona (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.4% of all boys named Yona (185) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16 | #5,926 (1986) | #6,527 |
| 1990s | 34 | #5,642 (1997) | #7,704 |
| 2000s | 113 | #5,434 (2007) | #6,671 |
| 2010s | 185 | #3,714 (2012) | #5,265 |
| 2020s | 134 | #3,605 (2024) | #4,605 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yona in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 253,146 of them was named Yona, which outranked 31.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,781Zuleimy8
- #11,781Zyona8
- #11,781Zyva8
- #12,876Yona7
- #12,876Aabha7
- #12,876Aadvi7
- #12,876Aagna7
- #14,331Aafiya6
- #14,331Aailyah6
- #14,331Aalina6
Tied with 1,454 names at #12,876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 111,632 of them was named Yona, which outranked 62.6% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,124Ziyan18
- #5,124Zohaib18
- #5,124Zorawar18
- #5,318Yona17
- #5,318Aarian17
- #5,318Aasir17
- #5,318Abijah17
- #5,555Advit16
- #5,555Aeon16
- #5,555Afton16
Tied with 236 names at #5,318; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.