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/).
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.
When Jonasz celebrates name day
Jonasz appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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.
Jonasz's popularity over time
39 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #395 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
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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Opole11 boys born+90%
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Lesser Poland53 boys born+86%
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Greater Poland48 boys born+78%
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Silesian37 boys born+30%
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Masovian44 boys born−1%
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Lower Silesian19 boys born−4%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian10 boys born−27%
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Pomeranian12 boys born−35%
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Łódź9 boys born−43%
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Lublin7 boys born−46%
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Subcarpathian8 boys born−47%
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Lubusz3 boys born−52%
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Warmian-Masurian4 boys born−56%
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West Pomeranian4 boys born−62%
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Podlaskie2 boys born−76%
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).
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#269 Charles709
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#270 Brajan703
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#271 Jonasz698
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#272 Eduardo697
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#273 Max697