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Jayona

Gender
Girl
Say it
jay-AH-nuh
Origin
Modern

Jayona is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Jayona come from?

Modern: spelling of Jayonna; blend of Jay with the -onna ending

Meaning borrowed from Jayonna.

Is Jayona a girl's or a boy's name?

Jayona is a girls' name.

How popular is Jayona in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Jayona in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 26 in 20072022
Jayona in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20227#12,237
20218#11,141
20205#15,083
20197#12,442
201812#8,612
20177#12,709
20160–
20156#14,477
201410#10,124
20138#11,964
201215#7,800
201110#10,370
20109#11,240
200911#9,971
200818#7,069
200726#5,374
200618#6,838
200512#8,878
200423#5,373
200317#6,571
200217#6,386
200114#7,311
200011#8,527
19990–
19989#9,254
19970–
19965#13,511
19950–
19946#11,771

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jayona: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jayona, updated 20 October 2026.