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Baby name
Jonas
Boy
Origin of the name
Jonas is the Greek and Latin form of Jonah. According to the Bible, the prophet Jonah was swallowed by a great fish before being spat out onto the shore.
Classic name
28,560births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 273rank at its peak, in 2008
Where babies named Jonas are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jonas is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jonas is most common in Utah (2.5 times), Pennsylvania (1.5) and Florida (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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