Given name
Yony
“dove”·“God has given”·“a gift of God”
Yony is a variant of Yona. In Hebrew use, Yona carries the interpretation “dove.” Yony connects to the Jonathan name family through Yonatan. Interpretations include “God has given” and “a gift of God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yony is a variant of Yona. In Hebrew use, Yona carries the interpretation “dove.” Yony connects to the Jonathan name family through Yonatan. Interpretations include “God has given” and “a gift of God” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yony connects to the Jonathan name family through Yonatan. An origin associated with Jonathan is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yony through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 206
- 206 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,952 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,952 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 788 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yony’s family of names
Yony has a related form in Yonatan. Yony has a related form in Yona.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yony
- Yony GonzálezColombian association football playerborn 1994
- Yony FloresGuatemalan footballerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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