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Jotham

#5,712 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh is perfect + perfect, complete

Jotham has been given to 681 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,712 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Jotham, 2025

1 in 207,000

Jotham over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jotham: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is perfect + perfect, complete

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jotham means

Jotham means “Yahweh is perfect + perfect, complete”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 681 boys were recorded with the name Jotham between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,036 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,130 in 2020 to #5,712 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,024 in 2015 to #5,712 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.

How common is Jotham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,712
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jotham 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jotham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jothams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jotham was born before 2011 — so the typical Jotham is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Jotham 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
−1,977
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−582
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,688
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 2013 (36)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,036
1982

Spellings of Jotham

Jotham is not the most common spelling — Johan is, with 56.6% against Jotham's 2.6%.

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 Jotham is used

Across 1910–2025, Jotham was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 613,923 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Jotham has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jotham around the world

Where Jotham 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
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2023
    #4,716
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jotham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,712
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 582
Best rank ever
#3,036
1982
Peak year
2013
36 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
681
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Jotham

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

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Sibling names for Jotham

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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