Jona is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.
At least in the US, the name Jona is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Jona each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Jona will meet someone with the same name. So, Jona is a very special name!
While Jona is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1964, the name Jona reached its highest popularity with #2,406 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their baby Jona. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and children in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Jona.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jona was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 32 babies were born with the name Jona. This puts the name in rank 7,566 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 10,331,309 newborns was named Jona that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Jona has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a very popular first letter for given names. That’s because 8.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letter A is more common for first names.
With four letters, the name Jona is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 8.3% of all first names start with a J, this initial letter occurs more than two times as often as all other letters on average.
If your name is Jona and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jona, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jona
Jona
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jona sounds like this:
