Jonatan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xonatan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jonatan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 211as Jonathan(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 385as Jonathan
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 391as Jonathan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jonatan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #132 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 673 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211 (inferred from the name graph)
717,208 named Jonathan, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Jonathan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jonathan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 4 more and Johnathan in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Jonatan (m.fl. former) är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung med betydelsen ’Guds gåva, Gud har givit (barnet)’. Namnet blev populärt i Sverige på 1980-talet efter hjälten i Astrid Lindgrens bok Bröderna Lejonhjärta (1973), som filmatiserades 1977. Namnet har varit mycket populärt under flera årtionden men är nu på nedgång. I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 december och i den finlandssvenska 26 januari.
Sources 3
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jonatan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #80 | 717,208as Jonathan | 1 in 464 | 716K | Jonathan | 673 |
| PH Philippines | #30 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | — | Jonathan | 197 |
| GB United Kingdom | #53 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | 6 | Jonathan | 442 |
| NG Nigeria | #269 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Jonathan | 132 |
| FR France | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 623 | 106K | Johnathan | 152 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 80,121as Jonathan | 1 in 211 | 80K | Jonathan | 93 |
| SE Sweden | #177 | 24,532as Jonathan | 1 in 416 | 25K | Jonathan | 163 |
| SV El Salvador | #77 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | — | Jonathan | 85 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 13,287as Jonathan | 1 in 384 | 13K | — | 124 |
717,208 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jonatan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, Jonathan (in the 1992 translation).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jussi Björlingb. 1911SEnot in their usual nameSwedish tenor (1911–1960)
- Yehonatan Geffenb. 1947ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright
- Jonathan Sagallb. 1959CAIsraeli actor and director
- Jonatan Johanssonb. 1975FIFinnish association football player and manager (born 1975)
- Jonatan Söderströmb. 1985SESwedish video game designer
- Jonatan Cerradab. 1985ESsinger
- Jonatan Luccab. 1994BRBrazilian association football player
- Yung Leanb. 1996SEnot in their usual nameSwedish rapper and record producer
- Jonatan Christieb. 1997IDIndonesian badminton player
- Jonathan Merguib. 2000ILIsraeli singer, dancer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8.1K | #462 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 5.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,309 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.8K | #503 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 872 | #605 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2011 | 250 | #2,570 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 47 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21 | #4,309 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jonatan?
- In the etymology graph, Jonathan, Johnathan and Jonathon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jonatan?
- A machine transcription gives /xonatan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Jonatan a male or female name?
- Jonatan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jonatan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 717 thousand people named Jonathan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jonatan most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Jonatan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 211 people named Jonathan.
- How common is the name Jonatan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 717,208 people named Jonathan in 2020, about 1 in 464 residents.
- How common is Jonatan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jonatan is the 80th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jonatan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jonatanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jonatan” — the 80th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.