Yehonatan
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɪoʊneɪtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yehonatan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 13K
- RORomania≈1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yehonatan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #832 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Yehonatan | 84 |
| US United States | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 7 | Yehonatan | 92 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Yehonatan | 6 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Yehonatan | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Yehonatan | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 100 | 1 in 383K | 100 | Yehonatan | 3 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yehonatan Yifrahb. 1929ILIsraeli politician (1929–2008)
- Yehonatan Geffenb. 1947ILIsraeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright
- Yonatan Yassurb. 1948ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Jonathan Sagallb. 1959CAnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor and director
- Yehonatan Berickb. 1968USAmerican musician (1968-2020)
- Yehonathan Gatrob. 1977ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer and actor
- Yoni Shlomob. 1977ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
- Yehonatan Magonb. 1986ILIsraeli voice dub actor
- Jonatan Kopelevb. 1991ILnot in their usual nameswimmer
- Jonathan Merguib. 2000ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 100 | #2,078 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 87 | #2,133 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Yehonatan?
- In the etymology graph, Jonathan, Johnathan and Jonathon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Yehonatan?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪoʊneɪtən/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Yehonatan a male or female name?
- Yehonatan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- In which country does Yehonatan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Yehonatan in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yehonatan.
- How common is the name Yehonatan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 100 people named Yehonatan in 2026, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
- How common is Yehonatan compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yehonatan is the 832nd most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yehonatan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yehonatanThe 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, “Yehonatan” — the 832nd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.