Jonna
Feminine · “Hebrew Yochanan”
Joanna funded the ministry. Luke 8:3 names her as the wife of Herod's steward, one of several women providing for Jesus and the disciples out of their own resources. It is a single verse, easy to miss, and it says the operation was paid for by women with money.
How old is the name Jonna?
Jonna first appears in US birth records in 1928 — 97 years ago. The typical Jonna alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 5,100 people named Jonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jonna most popular?
Jonna peaked in 1963, reaching #623 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 8,237 places below that high. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yochanan to Jonna
The story of Jonna
Luke's verse is unusually specific. It names Mary Magdalene, Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and says they and many others provided for the group out of their means. Chuza's position makes Joanna a woman of some standing, attached to the household of Herod Antipas, and the detail is the kind a writer with a source supplies rather than invents. The same three women, or two of them, reappear at the tomb. What the verse establishes is a financial arrangement: an itinerant group with no visible income was supported by women who had their own resources, which in that society usually meant widows or wives of officials. It is one sentence and it is the only account of how any of it was paid for.
Meaning
Hebrew Yochanan, God is gracious
From the Greek Ioanna, the feminine of Ioannes, from Hebrew Yochanan, Yah is gracious. Joanna is named twice in Luke, at 8:3 as one of the women who supported the ministry financially and at 24:10 as one of those who found the empty tomb. Jonna is a Scandinavian and American spelling of the same name. It peaks in the American data in 1963.
How the name formed
- Yochanan
- Ioanna
- Joanna
- Jonna
Related forms: Jonna · Joanna · Jonna
Pronouncing Jonna
JON-ah
Two syllables, stress on the first, short o. Scandinavian says YON-ah with a y. The doubled n marks the vowel short in both.
Nicknames for Jonna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1928
- Most girls named
- 1964204 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #623reached in 1963
- Change vs 2022
- +37.5%11 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jonna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jonna in Swedish — same name
- Joanna in English — related form
- Jonna in Danish — same name
Jonnas among us
people named Jonna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Jonna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jonna
- #8860
- Jonna on the 2025 chart
- #904
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jonna went to 11 girls in 2025, but Jonah and Jona are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 56, which makes it the 904th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,956 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 28,701 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Jonna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Annabell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jonna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Annabell climbed just as high around 1906, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Annabell's path sketches the road Jonna is walking now.
Jonna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jonna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jonna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled and the biblical figure is a substantial one.
- Jo is a universally understood short form.
- It is short and easy to spell.
- Joanna and Johanna are both more common in English.
- Scandinavian and English read the initial letter differently.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jonnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,100 people named Jonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jonna?
- Jonna is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jonah is the more common one — 39 births in 2025 against 11 for Jonna.
- How popular is the name Jonna in 2025?
- Jonna ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jonna?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Jonna — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jonna with classmates?
- Jonna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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