Given name & surname
Jonna
“God is gracious”
In English use, Jonna has a related form in Johnna. In English use, Johnna carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Jonna has a related form in Johnna. In English use, Johnna carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Danish use, Jonna is used as a contracted form of Johanna.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Scandinavian use, Jonna shares an earlier linguistic root with Jane. The history of Jane gives this family its wider story. Lady Jane Grey is one of the name’s historical bearers. In fiction, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre gave it a lasting nineteenth-century association; the novel appeared in 1847.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Jonna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,564
- 0 boys · 5,564 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 261 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #9,140 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −47%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,140 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 261 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,311 as a first name in 2020; 248 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jonna’s family of names
Jonna shares a linguistic root with Jane. In Swedish usage, Jonna has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Joanna. In German usage, Jonna has a related form in Johanna.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jonna has relatives in 5 languages.
4 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jonna
- Jonna AnderssonSwedish association football playerborn 1993
- Jonna SundlingSwedish female cross-country skierborn 1994
- Jonna LeeSwedish musicianborn 1981
- Yunna MoritsRussian writer (born 1937)
- Jonna AdlertegOlympic gymnast of Swedenborn 1995
- Jonna TervomaaFinnish singer-songwriterborn 1973
- Jonna MalmgrenSwedish freestyle wrestlerborn 2001
- Jonna MendesAmerican alpine skierborn 1979
- Jonna Mendezformer chief of disguise for the United States Central Intelligence Agencyborn 1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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