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The JONAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,572 3800 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,686 3470 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +6886 -330 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 374 4247 0.002 23
United Kingdom 851 5980 0.002 19
Top States for JONAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 676 2988 0.004 36
California 675 4520 0.002 20
Texas 658 3610 0.003 32
Florida 624 3458 0.004 39
Wisconsin 605 1070 0.011 113
Top States for JONAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 605 1070 0.011 113
South Dakota 69 1618 0.009 91
Montana 71 1763 0.008 79
Minnesota 377 1623 0.008 77
Idaho 74 2586 0.006 57

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JONAS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JONAS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JONAS in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JONAS by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JONAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JONAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JONAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JONAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 796 9.29
White (Hispanic) 229 2.67
Mixed Race 117 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.8
Asian/Pacific 63 0.73
White (Caucasian) 7,298 85.14

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JONAS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JONAS in historical publications

JONAS. The personal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JONAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JONAS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JONAS

The following words are slight variants of JONAS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.