Quick answers about Yonah
How many people are named Yonah?
An estimated 896 living Americans are named Yonah.
How rare is Yonah?
Yonah is very rare among babies today, with 42 boys receiving the name in 2025.
How old is the typical Yonah?
The median age of a living American named Yonah is approximately 16 years, with most bearers falling between 7 and 25 years old.
Is Yonah still popular?
Yes — Yonah is currently rising in popularity, with 42 births in 2025. Births this decade are running about 1.3× higher than the previous decade.
Where is Yonah most common?
Yonah has its strongest geographic signal in New York, where it appears 9.3× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
Yonah is most concentrated in New York — about 8.1× the national rate in the 2020s.
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