Johnathan

What Johnathan means

Variant of Jonathan, meaning “God has given”

variant of Jonathan || Borrowed from Hebrew יְהוֹנָתָן (yəhōnāṯān), יוֹנָתָן (yōnāṯān, literally “God has given”), apparently with influence from Aramaic .

Source: Wiktionary, “Johnathan” (revision 92366901) and “Jonathan” (revision 93671809), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Johnathan?

US: Falling: down from #308 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #2020 in 2015, #2014 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1990, when 3,245 boys got the name (#108 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 2,876 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (0.81 per 1,000 boys), SC (0.8 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.79 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Johnathan is #508 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Johnathan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jonathan3,822 US · 153 E&W
• Jonathon119 US
• Johnathon66 US
• Jonnathan9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Johnathan

Boys

• Joshua#66“to save”^*
• Jordan#131Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #59 in 2015, #131 in 2025
• Joe#991Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1936, with 8,023 babies; 230 in 2025
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Mathew#973Variant of Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*

For a sister

• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Rebekah#884“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Johnathan’s. Rank is US 2025.