Jonathen
Jonathen was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 1,507 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Jonathen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonathen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonathen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,149, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 2000, the peak
Jonathen peaked in 2000, when 59 boys were given it, #1,819 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #10,149 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,247 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,175 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,341 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,461 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,429 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,313 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,284 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,045 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,679 | 14.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 37 | #3,134 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,998 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,001 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,867 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,545 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,526 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,103 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,362 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,819 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,146 | 22.9 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,050 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,843 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 52 | #1,768 | 27.5 |
| 1995 | 46 | #1,866 | 24.2 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,649 | 28.5 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,804 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 46 | #1,809 | 23.0 |
| 1991 | 50 | #1,657 | 24.7 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,672 | 23.9 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,873 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,579 | 24.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,190 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 33 | #1,860 | 17.9 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,196 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,121 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,171 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,235 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,788 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,319 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,274 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,140 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,285 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,201 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,694 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,610 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,785 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,791 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,512 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,168 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,953 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,418 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,109 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,181 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,324 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,344 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,356 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,364 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,128 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,092 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonathen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonathen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jonathen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonathen, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,507 Americans ever recorded as Jonathen. The median Jonathen alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,290 people named Jonathen (9 women and girls, 1,281 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 151 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 591 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 616 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 60 |
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 Jonathen born?
The states with the most babies named Jonathen are California, Texas and Michigan, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 95 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Jonathen 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, Jonathen is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,615 babies recorded by SSA was a Jonathen (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 Jonathen
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 Jonathen and names like it
- Compare Jonathen and JonathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJonathen peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonathen since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jonathen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jonathen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.