Jona
A boys’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning dove; a form of Jonah.
Jona by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Jona. In the US, 25 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 57 babies in 1964, making it a 1960s name.
Other names that come from Jonah
Like Jona, each of these traces back to Jonah: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Jonigod is gracious; a form of Joan or Jonah111 in England and Wales (2025)
- Joahgod is gracious; a form of Jonah11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Yonasdove; a form of Jonah3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Younusdove; Arabic form of Jonah17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Younasdove; form of Yunus or Jonah7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jonoahdove; variant spelling of Jonah5 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jona. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bird
Like Jona, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
- Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)
- Ravendark-haired; from the bird name742 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jona
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