Johnathon
Johnathon was given to 66 boys in 2025, #2,171 among boys’ names; 25,652 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,500 Americans named Johnathon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 24 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnathon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johnathon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johnathon is “a male given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Jonathan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johnathon?
#2,171 among boys’ names, 2025
Johnathon fell from #1,122 in 2015 to #2,171 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 89.2 to 38.6 per million.
1,090 babies in 1990, the peak
Johnathon peaked in 1990, when 1,090 boys were given it, #250 among boys’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,171 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,087 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,203 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 92 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 95 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 126 | #1,389 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,436 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,271 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,355 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,255 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,122 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 234 | #916 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 249 | #859 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 265 | #826 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 266 | #818 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 282 | #782 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 395 | #635 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 371 | #655 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 425 | #595 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 467 | #542 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 458 | #531 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 481 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 533 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 609 | #414 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 616 | #406 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 696 | #378 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 729 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 783 | #343 | 0.41 |
| 1997 | 736 | #350 | 0.39 |
| 1996 | 871 | #302 | 0.46 |
| 1995 | 859 | #308 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 948 | #288 | 0.49 |
| 1993 | 967 | #286 | 0.49 |
| 1992 | 1,023 | #279 | 0.51 |
| 1991 | 1,068 | #254 | 0.53 |
| 1990 | 1,090 | #250 | 0.53 |
| 1989 | 985 | #258 | 0.49 |
| 1988 | 891 | #264 | 0.47 |
| 1987 | 787 | #279 | 0.42 |
| 1986 | 726 | #288 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 756 | #276 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 584 | #327 | 0.32 |
| 1983 | 559 | #332 | 0.31 |
| 1982 | 526 | #352 | 0.29 |
| 1981 | 498 | #353 | 0.28 |
| 1980 | 381 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1979 | 271 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 253 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 224 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 209 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 157 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 135 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 145 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 111 | #753 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 92 | #850 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 73 | #936 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 74 | #888 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 56 | #990 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,108 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,106 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,344 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,179 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 32 | #1,388 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,180 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,911 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,745 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,542 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,922 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,977 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,866 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,703 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,480 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnathon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnathon has been given almost only to boys: 52 girls in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johnathon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnathon, and how old are they?
24,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 25,652 Americans ever recorded as Johnathon. The median Johnathon alive today is 33 years old; half are between 24 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 19,727 people named Johnathon (27 women and girls, 19,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 231 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,700 |
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 Johnathon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,827 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,185 | 1.5× |
Where Johnathon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnathon is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1919 it was given 1.9 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 Johnathon 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 1,069,433 babies since 1880, Johnathon is the fourth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 4,615 babies (1.4%), again the fourth 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 Johnathon
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 Johnathon and names like it
- Compare Johnathon and JonathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJohnathon peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnathon since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Johnathon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Johnathon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.