Jonatan
Jonatan was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,733 among boys’ names; 3,725 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,640 Americans named Jonatan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonatan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jonatan mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Jonatan is “a male given name, equivalent to English Jonathan”
/jɔˈna.tan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jonatan?
#2,733 among boys’ names, 2025
Jonatan fell from #2,061 in 2015 to #2,733 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.0 to 27.5 per million.
159 babies in 2006, the peak
Jonatan peaked in 2006, when 159 boys were given it, #1,103 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,733 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,358 | 34.8 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,780 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,773 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,449 | 31.4 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,050 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,745 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,131 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,735 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,534 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,061 | 36.0 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,284 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,818 | 41.8 |
| 2012 | 71 | #1,997 | 37.4 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,554 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,466 | 58.4 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,342 | 65.0 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,195 | 72.5 |
| 2007 | 147 | #1,201 | 70.8 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,103 | 77.4 |
| 2005 | 150 | #1,101 | 75.1 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,116 | 71.5 |
| 2003 | 154 | #1,026 | 78.0 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,004 | 79.8 |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,062 | 70.0 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,099 | 65.2 |
| 1999 | 111 | #1,171 | 57.8 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,114 | 60.2 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,088 | 61.5 |
| 1996 | 143 | #917 | 75.5 |
| 1995 | 149 | #898 | 78.3 |
| 1994 | 126 | #986 | 65.2 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,363 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,108 | 49.1 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,269 | 38.1 |
| 1990 | 64 | #1,398 | 31.2 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,214 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,653 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,146 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,189 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,012 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,186 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,730 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,766 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,322 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,171 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,079 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,267 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,873 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,653 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonatan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonatan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jonatan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonatan, and how old are they?
3,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,725 Americans ever recorded as Jonatan. The median Jonatan alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,401 people named Jonatan (21 women and girls, 4,380 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 891 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 672 |
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 Jonatan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,442 | 1.6× |
Where Jonatan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jonatan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1971 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 Jonatan 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 6,291 babies since 1880, Jonatan is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 75 babies (63%), again the 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 Jonatan
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 Jonatan and names like it
- Compare Jonatan and JhonatanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJonatan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonatan since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jonatan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jonatan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jonatan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.