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Jonathan
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɒnəθən/
Rank in 2024
#83
Born in 2024
4,018
Peak year
1988 · #15
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 4,018 boys were named Jonathan, about 1 in every 427.
- It peaked in 1988 with 24,348 babies, ranked #15.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 866,991 boys have been named Jonathan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jonathan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 1.4Boomers1946–64
- 5.7Gen X1965–80
- 11.7Millennials1981–96
- 7.3Gen Z1997–12
- 3.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,660 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Silent: 5,152 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Boomers: 51,025 babies, 1.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 154,117 babies, 5.66 per 1,000. Millennials: 355,215 babies, 11.67 per 1,000. Gen Z: 228,860 babies, 7.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 70,630 babies, 3.25 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Hebrew יְהוֹנָתָן (yəhōnāṯān), יוֹנָתָן (yōnāṯān, literally “God has given”), apparently with influence from Aramaic [Term?].
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɒnəθən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jonathan, CC BY-SA 4.0.