Jonatan
Jonatan reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 1,102, and has been recorded 3,725 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,718th. About 3,600 Jonatans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jonatan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,725
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 1,102nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,718th
- First recorded
- 1971
How old the living Jonatans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,725 babies given the name since 1971, about 3,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jonatans
- Jonatan Johansson (born 1975)Finnish association football player and manager
- Jonatan Cristaldo (born 1989)Argentine footballer
- Jonatan Christie (born 1997)Indonesian badminton player
- Jonatan Hellvig (born 2001)Swedish beach volleyball player
- Jonatan Cerrada (born 1985)singer
- Jonatan Valle (born 1984)Spanish footballer
- Jonatan Kopelev (born 1991)swimmer
People named Jonatan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jonatan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jonatan is most concentrated in Arizona (3.8×), California (3.4×), Texas (3.3×), Florida (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Jonatan peaked:
Jonatan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Jonatan | 1,407 birth registrations | 138th |
| Norway boys | Jonatan | 1,112 | 124th |
| France boys | Jonatan | 385 | 587th |
| Italy boys | Jonatan | 245 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Jonatan | 111 | 490th |
| England and Wales boys | Jonatan | 65 | 2,613th |
| Belgium boys | Jonatan | 43 | 659th |
| Ireland boys | Jonatan | 6 | 701st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jonatan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jonatan | 87 | 0.007% | 348th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jonatan | 18 | 0.004% | 374th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jonatan | 4 | 0.006% | 184th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Jonatan | 2 | 0.054% | 22nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jonatan is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Jonatan: rank by region
In 2008, Jonatan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jonatan | 844 | 5 |
In 2025, Jonatan was given 2 times or more in 8 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Jonatan | 172 | 5 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Jonatan | 164 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Jonatan | 140 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Jonatan | 167 | 5 |
| Mazowieckie | Jonatan | 235 | 4 |
| Pomorskie | Jonatan | 212 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Jonatan | 186 | 4 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Jonatan | 136 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jonatan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jonatan | 777 | 1,750 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jonatan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 19,371 men called Jonatan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bizkaia | Jonatan | 855 | 1.513 | 124 |
| Cantabria | Jonatan | 423 | 1.471 | 106 |
| Zamora | Jonatan | 119 | 1.452 | 111 |
| León | Jonatan | 313 | 1.435 | 110 |
| Valladolid | Jonatan | 365 | 1.418 | 110 |
| Toledo | Jonatan | 481 | 1.267 | 117 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jonatan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.