Jonte
Jonte was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,556 among boys’ names; 1,489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Jonte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jonte mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Jonte is “a diminutive of the male given names Jonatan, Jonathan, and Jonas”
/²jɔntɛ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jonte?
#8,556 among boys’ names, 2025
Jonte fell from #4,960 in 2015 to #8,556 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 5.3 per million.
78 babies in 1997, the peak
Jonte peaked in 1997, when 78 babies were given it (67 boys, #1,542 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,556 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,357 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #13,116 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,386 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 12 | #6,875 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,370 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,500 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,161 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 16 | #5,650 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 18 | #5,218 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 19 | #4,960 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,442 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,423 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 20 | #4,779 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,082 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,875 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 25 | #4,098 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 22 | #4,464 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 27 | #3,833 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 31 | #3,414 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 22 | #4,122 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 37 | #2,810 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 27 | #3,399 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 26 | #3,400 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,337 | 38 | #2,542 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,947 | 45 | #2,205 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 36 | #2,488 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 49 | #1,968 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,011 | 67 | #1,542 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,134 | 46 | #1,943 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,456 | 37 | #2,189 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,155 | 47 | #1,836 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,079 | 55 | #1,624 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,237 | 51 | #1,681 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,917 | 43 | #1,842 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,624 | 24 | #2,731 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,176 | 37 | #1,965 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,942 | 29 | #2,162 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,209 | 26 | #2,240 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,043 | 24 | #2,326 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,811 | 24 | #2,256 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,337 | 24 | #2,198 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,606 | 26 | #2,048 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,342 | 23 | #2,236 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,700 | 26 | #2,066 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,703 | 21 | #2,403 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,410 | 15 | #2,957 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,998 | 16 | #2,731 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,916 | 16 | #2,726 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jonte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,489 Americans recorded as Jonte, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jonte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonte, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,489 Americans ever recorded as Jonte. The median Jonte alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,070 people named Jonte (202 women and girls, 868 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 88 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 688 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 518 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,822 babies since 1880, Jonte is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 20 babies (45%), the second most given that year.
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 Jonte
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 Jonte and names like it
- Compare Jonte and JontaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJonte peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonte since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jonte: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Jonte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jonte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.