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How popular is “Jona” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jona” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jona” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jona” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jona” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jona” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jona” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jona” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 28 0.000006974 28 100%
1956 20 0.000004851 20 100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 100%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 100%
1960 29 0.000006982 29 100%
1961 49 0.000011829 49 100%
1962 39 0.000009665 39 100%
1963 54 0.000013643 54 100%
1964 57 0.000014662 57 100%
1965 38 0.000010481 38 100%
1966 39 0.000011221 39 100%
1967 41 0.000012077 41 100%
1968 38 0.000011248 38 100%
1969 44 0.000012661 44 100%
1970 44 0.0000122 44 100%
1971 39 0.000011362 32 7 64%
1972 27 0.000008591 27 100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 100%
1974 41 0.000013487 33 8 61%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 100%
1976 35 0.000011535 29 6 66%
1977 26 0.000008185 21 5 62%
1978 42 0.000013233 32 10 52%
1979 39 0.000011722 39 100%
1980 39 0.000011322 34 5 74%
1981 48 0.000013875 39 9 63%
1982 47 0.000013398 38 9 62%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 100%
1984 24 0.000006879 24 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 22 7 52%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 100%
1987 27 0.000007488 22 5 63%
1988 33 0.000008931 25 8 52%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 100%
1994 26 0.000006994 18 8 38%
1995 24 0.000006554 18 6 50%
1996 26 0.000007129 17 9 31%
1997 32 0.000008826 25 7 56%
1998 30 0.000008156 22 8 47%
1999 21 0.000005685 10 11 -5%
2000 26 0.000006878 15 11 15%
2001 31 0.000008281 24 7 55%
2002 29 0.000007758 16 13 10%
2003 26 0.000006838 15 11 15%
2004 25 0.000006543 16 9 28%
2005 16 0.000004161 9 7 13%
2006 15 0.000003792 7 8 -7%
2007 35 0.000008755 19 16 9%
2008 24 0.000006106 10 14 -17%
2009 20 0.000005235 11 9 10%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 20 0.000005468 7 13 -30%
2012 33 0.000009023 18 15 9%
2013 20 0.000005486 8 12 -20%
2014 25 0.000006745 11 14 -12%
2015 29 0.000007836 16 13 10%
2016 22 0.000005997 6 16 -45%
2017 25 0.000006991 9 16 -28%
2018 30 0.000008533 13 17 -13%
2019 33 0.000009508 10 23 -39%
2020 43 0.000012872 18 25 -16%
2021 28 0.000008265 14 14 0%
2022 32 0.000009459 11 21 -31%
2023 42 0.000012684 19 23 -10%
2024 35 0.000010515 9 26 -49%

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