Jonas comes from the Greek Ionas, which is based on the Hebrew name Yonah. It means ‘dove’ or ‘peaceful being’.
Jonas is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Jonas isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jonas ranks 437. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Jonas. In the entire USA, approximately 21,541 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jonas. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Jonas annualy. This means that there have been boys named Jonas who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Jonas have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2008, it holds its present record of #263 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jonas was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Jonas has never been ranked higher than #263. In 2022, he rivaled the 526 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 533 boys named Jonas were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Jonas were born, there have been 152 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Jonas is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jonas 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 Jonas, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Nut
Apple
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jonas
Jonas
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
N
A
S
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
S
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. Jonas sounds like this:
