Jonas

Where Jonas comes from

From Latin Iōnās, from Koine Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonah.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jonas
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #320 among boys — 28 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1914
    Jonas Salk born
    Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine
  3. 1960
    Jonas Gahr Støre born
    Prime Minister of Norway since 2021
  4. 2008
    Peak, #273
    1,256 babies named Jonas — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #449.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Jonas Salk · Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine, 1914–1995
  • Jonas Gahr Støre · Prime Minister of Norway since 2021, born 1960
  • Jonas Malheiro Savimbi · Angolan political and military leader, 1934–2002
  • Jonas Hector · German association football player, born 1990
  • Jonas Vingegaard · Danish cyclist, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.