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Jonasz

A Hebrew name meaning "dove". It sits well outside the everyday: most Poles have never met a Jonasz, and the roughly 650th spot on the register puts it among the rarer boys' names given today.

Jonasz Pronunciation

Jonasz is pronounced YO-nahsh (/ˈjɔnaʂ/).

Alive in 2025
2,380
Newborns 2025
39
National rank
#656
Main name day
11 February
Meaning & Origin

What Jonasz means

Where Jonasz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Jonasz is the Polish form of the Hebrew name Yonah, and Yonah means dove. The bird sits inside the name before any story does. Long before the word reached Polish registers, it named a common creature people knew from rooftops and marketplaces, the grey bird that returns.

The most famous bearer is the prophet Jonah, the man in the Book of Jonah who was told to go to Nineveh, fled by sea, and was swallowed by a great fish. His story turned a plain bird-word into a name about being sent somewhere, resisting, and going anyway. So a boy called Jonasz carries a word for dove and, behind it, one of the shortest and strangest books in the Bible.

In a Polish class register the name looks settled and modern, four letters after the surname. Yet the root stays Hebrew, gołąb in Polish, dove in English. That is the plainest thing the name says, and it says it without help. A dove.

How many

How many people are named Jonasz

1 in 8969 men in Poland is named Jonasz. 2,380 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #656 among male names.

Living Jonaszs · 2019 → 2025
2,380 +245 since 2019
+32 2020
+48 2021
+60 2022
+32 2023
+37 2024
+36 2025
Trend

Jonasz's popularity over time

39 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #395 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

39 newborn Jonaszs in 2025
national rank #395 that year
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Regions

Where Jonasz is most popular

Jonasz is most popular in Opole, 90% above the national average (11 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+86%) and Greater Poland (+78%). It is least common in Podlaskie and West Pomeranian, 76% and 62% below average respectively.

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Middle name

Jonasz as a middle name

Jonasz is a first name for 2,380 men in Poland and a middle name for another 698, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 271st, between Brajan (703) and Eduardo (697).

As a first name
2,380
As a middle name
698
first name · 77% middle name · 23%
Middle-name ranking · men

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