Jonatha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Jonatha

The Social Security Administration has registered 311 babies named Jonatha between 1962 and 1996, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jonatha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Jonatha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 29 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jonatha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 220 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jonatha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jonatha in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jonatha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 311 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.