Jonas Boy Name

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The name Jonas is of Greek origin, and is an alternate form of Jonah. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jonas has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jonas**
Use of the Name Jonas for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
13,681	10,175	7,348	4,215	2,508	1,095	557

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jonas has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jonas**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	323	28
1881	327	25
1882	349	26
1883	362	22
1884	295	35
1885	370	23
1886	399	20
1887	331	25
1888	339	30
1889	356	25
1890	380	22
1891	423	18
1892	389	24
1893	354	26
1894	580	13
1895	373	26
1896	433	21
1897	446	19
1898	498	18
1899	752	9
1900	408	31
1901	480	17
1902	383	27
1903	388	26
1904	462	22
1905	538	19
1906	554	18
1907	430	29
1908	443	30
1909	627	19
1910	720	18
1911	538	31
1912	571	50
1913	624	51
1914	650	61
1915	646	81
1916	641	84
1917	722	73
1918	632	95
1919	652	89
1920	700	86
1921	790	73
1922	742	79
1923	862	62
1924	809	70
1925	791	70
1926	645	96
1927	798	69
1928	770	71
1929	780	68
1930	707	78
1931	833	57
1932	813	62
1933	871	51
1934	764	65
1935	885	51
1936	849	52
1937	936	45
1938	915	48
1939	850	52
1940	868	53
1941	861	54
1942	914	53
1943	925	52
1944	804	61
1945	961	45
1946	887	55
1947	847	67
1948	834	67
1949	889	60
1950	862	63
1951	854	67
1952	964	55
1953	897	64
1954	962	59
1955	986	58
1956	853	77
1957	981	60
1958
1959	967	63
1960	911	69
1961
1962	980	61
1963	916	67
1964	807	88
1965	803	86
1966	837	76
1967	888	66
1968	980	57
1969	674	136
1970	581	194
1971	528	230
1972	614	166
1973	588	183
1974	631	162
1975	622	169
1976	588	192
1977	620	182
1978	629	175
1979	589	210
1980	458	336
1981	457	329
1982	506	281
1983	510	274
1984	572	220
1985	639	188
1986	693	171
1987	660	191
1988	763	153
1989	817	147
1990	779	170
1991	830	154
1992	909	135
1993	807	171
1994	715	213
1995	696	231
1996	571	319
1997	555	349
1998	522	395
1999	512	413
2000	527	418
2001	516	434
2002	439	561
2003	466	538
2004	460	557
Totals:		13,681		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jonas as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jonas appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 123 times during the last 125 years.

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