Yonah
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #10,312 · #2,941 for boys in 2025, 42 births
Given to boys 97.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 911since 1974
Yonah over time
Rank among boys' names. Yonah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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 | — | #2,941 | 42 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,915 | 43 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #3,278 | 36 |
| 2021 | — | #3,297 | 35 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | — | #3,426 | 33 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,594 | 21 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,470 | 22 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,711 | 20 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,099 | 24 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,399 | 32 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | — | #4,011 | 25 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,710 | 25 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,793 | 17 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,426 | 18 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,693 | 17 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
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| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yonah! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yonah
- 26 spots since 2024 (#2,915 → #2,941)
- 1,079 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #2,941)
- 1,770 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #2,941)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2024 at #2,915 (43 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,067 boys born in 2024 were named Yonah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,668 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.0% of all boys named Yonah (255) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,143 |
| 1980s | 80 | #3,131 (1986) | #5,011 |
| 1990s | 123 | #3,406 (1996) | #5,342 |
| 2000s | 228 | #3,399 (2009) | #4,018 |
| 2010s | 255 | #3,426 (2019) | #4,065 |
| 2020s | 214 | #2,915 (2024) | #3,321 |
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.
Yonah in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 149,380 of them was named Yonah, which outranked 53.6% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,230Zacary13
- #3,230Zacharie13
- #3,230Ziad13
- #3,411Yonah12
- #3,411Abigail12
- #3,411Abrahan12
- #3,411Adrienne12
- #3,630Able11
- #3,630Adrin11
- #3,630Alfonza11
Tied with 218 names at #3,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.