Yonatan
Yonatan was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,831 among boys’ names; 2,551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,500 Americans named Yonatan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yonatan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yonatan?
#2,831 among boys’ names, 2025
Yonatan fell from #1,893 in 2015 to #2,831 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 26.3 per million.
100 babies in 2005, the peak
Yonatan peaked in 2005, when 100 boys were given it, #1,469 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,831 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,344 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 53 | #2,538 | 31.0 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,376 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,773 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,756 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,211 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,207 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,293 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,133 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,893 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,905 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,019 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,322 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,055 | 34.8 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,954 | 37.5 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,939 | 37.3 |
| 2008 | 85 | #1,773 | 41.7 |
| 2007 | 89 | #1,712 | 42.9 |
| 2006 | 98 | #1,534 | 47.7 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,469 | 50.1 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,667 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 87 | #1,493 | 44.0 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,410 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,363 | 48.4 |
| 2000 | 70 | #1,661 | 35.6 |
| 1999 | 72 | #1,555 | 37.5 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,662 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 50 | #1,884 | 26.5 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,442 | 38.0 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,949 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,005 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,154 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,660 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,462 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,300 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,608 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,674 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,393 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 30 | #2,004 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,041 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,527 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,067 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,707 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,494 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,608 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,892 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,212 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,600 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,925 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #6,000 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yonatan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yonatan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yonatan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yonatan, and how old are they?
2,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,551 Americans ever recorded as Yonatan. The median Yonatan alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,519 people named Yonatan (4 women and girls, 2,515 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,217 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 436 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 778 |
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 Yonatan born?
The states with the most babies named Yonatan are New York, California and Florida, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,407 | 3.0× |
| California | 8 | #1,990 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,618 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,936 | 0.7× |
Where Yonatan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yonatan is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 3.0 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 Yonatan 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,647 babies since 1880, Yonatan is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 52 babies (87%), 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 Yonatan
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 Yonatan and names like it
- Compare Yonatan and YehonatanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYonatan peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yonatan since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Yonatan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yonatan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.