Johnatha
Johnatha was last recorded in 1989, when 34 babies were given it; 57 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnatha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #2,079, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1989, the peak
Johnatha peaked in 1989, when 34 boys were given it, #2,079 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 34 | #2,079 | 17.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,083 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,742 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,822 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,454 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnatha has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 5 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnatha, and how old are they?
An estimated 54 Americans named Johnatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Johnatha is a less common spelling of Jonatha: SSA has recorded 57 Johnatha and 340 Jonatha since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.