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Jonatan

#2,733 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jonathan

Jonatan has been given to 3,725 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,733 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 159 recorded.

Babies named Jonatan, 2025

1 in 70,500

Jonatan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jonatan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jonathan

Hebrew

What Jonatan means

Jonatan is a form of Jonathan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jonatan → Jonathan. The family’s meaning is “God has given”, recorded in English with the source elements yōnāṯān.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonatan is used in Danish, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonathan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian, Jonatan is pronounced /ˈjuːna.tanː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,725 boys were recorded with the name Jonatan between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 159 in 2006; its best national rank was #898 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,050 in 2020 to #2,733 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,061 in 2015 to #2,733 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jonatan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,733
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonatan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonatan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonatans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonatan was born before 2003 — so the typical Jonatan is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,725
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,448).

Is Jonatan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−375
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+317
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−672
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.6%
Peak was 2006 (159)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
1995

Spellings of Jonatan

Jonatan is not the most common spelling — Jonathan is, with 82.0% against Jonatan's 0.35%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jonatan is used

Across 1910–2025, Jonatan was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 45,058 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jonatan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jonatan around the world

Where Jonatan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    1975–2022
    #7,143
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #1,820
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jonatan

People whose public names include Jonatan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jonatan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jonatan. Linked forms have their own page here.

JonathanGionataJoonatan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jonatan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,733
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 317
Best rank ever
#898
1995
Peak year
2006
159 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,725
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Jonatan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jonatan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jonatan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JalilDashaunMiguelangelBrennonTyshawnJovanyTravionKavonRyleyKeandreReillyColeton

Sibling names for Jonatan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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