Jonathan
Jonathan places #89 across the country in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. First recorded 1880, best year 1988, 870,866 bearers across the whole run.
What Jonathan carries
Jonathan · Hebrew
“the Lord’s gift”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Jonathan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Jonathan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Jonathan since 1880
Jonathan peaked in 1988 at #15; #89 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Jonathan is most common
Among the states, Jonathan takes its largest share in Alaska, 0.48% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Connecticut and Rhode Island next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Jonathan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nathaniel
#140 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jacob
#43 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abigail
#41 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zachary
#216 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Jonathan
Where does Jonathan rank right now?
Jonathan places #89 across the country in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Jonathan have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “the Lord’s gift”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Jonathan?
The recipe puts Jose first, then Jordan, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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