Johnatan
Johnatan was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 687 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnatan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnatan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,180, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 2001, the peak
Johnatan peaked in 2001, when 40 boys were given it, #2,451 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,180 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,107 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,186 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,451 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,130 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,396 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,127 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,497 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,755 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,018 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 26 | #3,982 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,541 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,560 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,195 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,322 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,595 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,573 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,451 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,547 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,314 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,742 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,104 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,064 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,965 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,269 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,813 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,627 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,388 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,228 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,708 | 7.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,185 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,744 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,031 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,788 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,842 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,319 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnatan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnatan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnatan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnatan, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Johnatan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,124 people named Johnatan (13 women and girls, 1,111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Johnatan born?
The states with the most babies named Johnatan are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 118 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 95 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Johnatan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnatan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1981 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Johnatan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Johnatan?
Johnatan is a less common spelling of Jonatan: SSA has recorded 687 Johnatan and 3,725 Jonatan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,291 babies since 1880, Johnatan is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Johnatan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johnatan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jakeb | 1,170 | |
| Marcanthony | 1,399 | |
| Marcoantonio | 1,521 | |
| Traveon | 1,070 | |
| Christion | 1,213 | |
| Dashaun | 2,920 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Johnatan and names like it
- Compare Johnatan and JonatanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJohnatan peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnatan since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Johnatan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Johnatan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.