Name meaning & stats
Jonah
Jonah means “dove” (Hebrew origin). 85,057 US babies since 1940, peak 2008.
What it means
“dove”
HebrewWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2008
85,057 US babies were named Jonah between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Jonah (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2008)