as a First Name
Variant of Jonah, from the New Testament Greek form of the name. Both Jonah and Jonas were used by the Puritans, the latter from the 1560s at least.
| 2,049th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,532
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 14,178
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Jonas per capita
- 2008
- marked the height of its popularity
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18%
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12%
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67%
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Top state populations
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