Johnathan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Respelled form of Jonathan, as if a combination of John and jNathan
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/xoanatan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Johnathan is a male 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 136K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 211as Jonathan
- CRCosta Rica1 in 384as 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 Johnathan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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)
- Record sources
- 673 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
717,208 named Jonathan, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
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 5 more.
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)Respelled form of Jonathan, as if a combination of John and jNathan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Johnathan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Johnathan 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 |
| NL Netherlands | #656 | 127 | 1 in 136K | 5.2K | Jonathan | 160 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)Johnathan 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 English, A male given name from Hebrew, of uncommon usage, variant of Jonathan.
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)- Johnathan McClainb. 1970USAmerican television actor
- Johnathan Blakeb. 1976USAmerican musician
- John Buckb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player, 2004-2014 major league catcher
- Jeff Wardb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1986-)
- John Wallb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Johnathan Aparecido da Silvab. 1990BRBrazilian footballer
- Chance the Rapperb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper, singer and record producer (born 1993)
- Johnathan Motleyb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Johnathan Williamsb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Johnathan Nievesb. 1997USactor, born and raised in chicago.
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)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 78K | #678 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 594 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 160 | #678 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1998 | 130 | #1,682 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 127 | #3,829 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 58 | #10,855 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #14,277 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 37 | #3,988 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2021 | 4 | #605 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2010 | 3 | #387 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Johnathan?
- In the etymology graph, Jonathan, Jonathon and Jonatan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Johnathan mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelled form of Jonathan, as if a combination of John and jNathan. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Johnathan?
- In Spanish /xoanatan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Johnathan a male or female name?
- Johnathan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022), France (INSEE, 1998) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- How common is the name Johnathan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 127 people named Johnathan, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
- How common is Johnathan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Johnathan is the 80th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Johnathan 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 Johnathan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Johnathan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 136 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Johnathan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johnathanThe 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, “Johnathan” — the 80th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.