Johnathan
Johnathan was given to 594 boys in 2025, #508 among boys’ names; 98,611 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 94,000 Americans named Johnathan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnathan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johnathan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johnathan is “a male given name from Hebrew, of uncommon usage, variant of Jonathan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johnathan?
#508 among boys’ names, 2025
Johnathan fell from #308 in 2015 to #508 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.61 to 0.35 per 1,000.
3,253 babies in 1990, the peak
Johnathan peaked in 1990, when 3,253 babies were given it (3,245 boys, #108 among boys’ names). The 594 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 594 | #508 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 595 | #513 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 653 | #467 | 0.38 |
| 2022 | 598 | #503 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 702 | #440 | 0.40 |
| 2020 | 713 | #418 | 0.41 |
| 2019 | 815 | #385 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 834 | #385 | 0.46 |
| 2017 | 947 | #353 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 1,028 | #340 | 0.54 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,161 | #308 | 0.61 |
| 2014 | 1,201 | #295 | 0.63 |
| 2013 | 1,252 | #278 | 0.66 |
| 2012 | 1,414 | #258 | 0.75 |
| 2011 | 1,501 | #239 | 0.79 |
| 2010 | 1,651 | #216 | 0.86 |
| 2009 | 1,843 | #205 | 0.93 |
| 2008 | 1,963 | #200 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 2,152 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 2,307 | #177 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 2,242 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 2,178 | #183 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,196 | #178 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 2,264 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 2,306 | #166 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 2,469 | #157 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,519 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1998 | 2,591 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 1997 | 2,550 | #142 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,564 | #138 | 1.4 |
| 1995 | 2,447 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1994 | 2,612 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 2,719 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1992 | 2,897 | #122 | 1.5 |
| 1991 | 3,120 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1990 | 3,245 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 2,964 | #112 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 2,675 | #115 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,479 | #116 | 1.3 |
| 1986 | 2,417 | #115 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 2,391 | #118 | 1.3 |
| 1984 | 2,099 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1983 | 1,927 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 1,836 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 1,711 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 1,409 | #174 | 0.79 |
| 1979 | 1,140 | #209 | 0.66 |
| 1978 | 942 | #224 | 0.57 |
| 1977 | 929 | #232 | 0.57 |
| 1976 | 872 | #232 | 0.56 |
| 1975 | 795 | #253 | 0.51 |
| 1974 | 669 | #281 | 0.43 |
| 1973 | 738 | #262 | 0.47 |
| 1972 | 655 | #286 | 0.40 |
| 1971 | 577 | #323 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 503 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1969 | 396 | #400 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 360 | #407 | 0.21 |
| 1967 | 266 | #465 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 259 | #477 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 206 | #538 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 223 | #524 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 213 | #543 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 231 | #522 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 135 | #672 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 143 | #652 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 109 | #735 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 106 | #724 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 88 | #799 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 106 | #711 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 95 | #752 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 78 | #821 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 78 | #814 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 55 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,180 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,148 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,016 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,182 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,504 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,719 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,603 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,609 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,270 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,023 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,697 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,636 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,625 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,505 | 0.01 |
| 1886 | 6 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 5 | #942 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnathan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnathan has been given almost only to boys: 349 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johnathan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnathan, and how old are they?
94,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 98,611 Americans ever recorded as Johnathan. The median Johnathan alive today is 30 years old; half are between 20 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 78,090 people named Johnathan (160 women and girls, 77,930 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 91,628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 47 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 33,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Johnathan born?
The states with the most babies named Johnathan are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 68 | #495 | 1.1× |
| California | 53 | #567 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 32 | #548 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 26 | #432 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 23 | #463 | 0.9× |
| New York | 22 | #673 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 20 | #429 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #525 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 19 | #386 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #445 | 1.6× |
Where Johnathan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnathan is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Johnathan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,069,631 babies since 1880, Johnathan is the second most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 594 of their 4,615 babies (13%), again the second most given.
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 Johnathan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Johnathan and names like it
- Compare Johnathan and JonathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJohnathan peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnathan since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Johnathan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Johnathan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.