Jonthan
Jonthan was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 990 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonthan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonthan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,187, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1986, the peak
Jonthan peaked in 1986, when 48 boys were given it, #1,444 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #9,187 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,146 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,402 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,635 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,537 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,951 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,401 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,742 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,470 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,550 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | #7,189 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,087 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,904 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,917 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,099 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,088 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,967 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,721 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,743 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,431 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,843 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,789 | 21.4 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,005 | 18.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,797 | 19.9 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,695 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 48 | #1,444 | 26.1 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,628 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,812 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 43 | #1,453 | 24.0 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,687 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,743 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,140 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,337 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,986 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,312 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,164 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,695 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,231 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,554 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,893 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,012 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,170 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,774 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,421 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,111 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,877 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,182 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,598 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,760 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,463 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,834 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,199 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonthan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonthan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jonthan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonthan, and how old are they?
An estimated 924 Americans named Jonthan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,281 people named Jonthan (20 women and girls, 2,261 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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.
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 1,044,429 babies since 1880, Jonthan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,563 babies recorded by SSA was a Jonthan (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 Jonthan
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 Jonthan and names like it
- Compare Jonthan and JonathanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJonthan peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonthan since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Jonthan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jonthan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.