Jonahtan
Jonahtan was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 188 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonahtan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonahtan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,217, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1987, the peak
Jonahtan peaked in 1987, when 18 boys were given it, #2,885 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #11,217 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,662 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,238 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,418 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,337 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,581 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,147 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,272 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,885 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,746 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 14 | #3,296 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,185 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,996 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,390 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,321 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,207 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,693 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,318 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonahtan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonahtan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jonahtan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonahtan, and how old are they?
An estimated 178 Americans named Jonahtan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 37 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 120 people named Jonahtan (2 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jonahtan?
Jonahtan is a less common spelling of Jonatan: SSA has recorded 188 Jonahtan and 3,725 Jonatan since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,048 babies since 1880, Jonahtan is the fourth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Jonahtan (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 Jonahtan
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 Jonahtan and names like it
- Compare Jonahtan and JonatanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJonahtan peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonahtan since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jonahtan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jonahtan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.