Yonas

#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births

Peak · boys
1991 · 18 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
416
since 1985

Yonas over time

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Rank among boys' names. Yonas has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201996peak #3,325, 1991boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#9,7147
2024#5,90415
2023#6,22014
2022#6,82812
2021#7,58710
2020#9,5547
2019#7,64310
2018#8,8198
2017#5,29717
2016#6,72612
2015#9,5687
2014#6,30713
2013#7,53710
2012#7,55910
2011#6,57812
2010#8,1399
2009#8,9858
2008#6,07014
2007#4,80819
2006#6,90411
2005#5,87513
2004#8,9277
2003#3,83822
2002#7,6438
2001#6,9359
2000#6,8399
1999#6,04210
1998#5,84010
1997#6,1009
1996#4,61313
1995#4,79112
1994#7,7706
1993#5,7719
1992#4,56412
1991#3,32518
1990#5,8238
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five boys were named Yonas! It came in at #5,147, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1989, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yonas
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 3,810 spots since 2024 (#5,904#9,714)
  • 160 spots since 2020 (#9,554#9,714)
  • 146 spots since 2015 (#9,568#9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 1991 at #3,325 (18 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 89,789
  • Highest: 1 in 89,789 boys born in 2003 were named Yonas (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,325 in 1991, was only 1 in 112,240 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 28.8% of all boys named Yonas (120) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s16#4,457 (1986)#4,802
1990s107#3,325 (1991)#5,464
2000s120#3,838 (2003)#6,682
2010s108#5,297 (2017)#7,417
2020s65#5,904 (2024)#7,635

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.

Yonas in 1996

boys
#4,613
13 births · 1 in 145,715 boys

Top boys' names in 1996

  1. #1Michael38,373
  2. #2Matthew32,077
  3. #3Jacob31,925
  4. #4Christopher30,904
  5. #5Joshua29,175
  6. #6Nicholas27,724
  7. #7Tyler26,956
  8. #8Brandon25,847
  9. #9Austin25,663
  10. #10Andrew25,244
  11. #4,613Yonas13
More about 1996

boys

1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 145,715 of them was named Yonas, which outranked 56.2% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yonas
  1. #4,396Zebulun14
  2. #4,396Ziad14
  3. #4,396Ziyad14
  4. #4,613Yonas13
  5. #4,613Abdulla13
  6. #4,613Abhinav13
  7. #4,613Abu13
  8. #4,878Abbas12
  9. #4,878Abdoulaye12
  10. #4,878Abelino12

Tied with 264 names at #4,613; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. 1,398Keyshawn#2,178#780
  2. 1,171Jair#2,055#884
  3. 1,065Kordell#2,055#990
  4. 856Shemar#1,758#902
  5. 686Nasir#1,648#962
Fallers
  1. 1,075Unknown#665#1,740
  2. 649Rashaan#937#1,586
  3. 633Savon#966#1,599
  4. 514Latrell#966#1,480
  5. 351Rakeem#970#1,321

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1996