Meaning not yet researched.
Johnathon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #250 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #250 in 1990; #2,171 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Johnathon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,171 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #250.
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Johnathon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 boys in 2025. Peak: #250 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 1,090 (1990).
In 2025, 66 US boys were named Johnathon, making it the 2,171st most common boys’ name of the year, down 84 places from #2,087 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 72 boys named Johnathon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #250, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,090. For comparison, it was #1,122 in 2015 and #3,178 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johnathon in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 25,652 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,079 babies named Johnathon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,061 US boys were named Johnathon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,880 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Johnathon ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,185 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jonathan (874,440 babies since 1880), Jonathon (65,836 babies since 1880), Johnathan (98,611 babies since 1880) and Jonathen (1,507 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to John, Johnathan, Johny, Jon, Jonathan and Jonathon.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,185 | #651 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,827 | #1,408 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 66 | #2,171 |
| 2024 | — | — | 72 | #2,087 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,204 |
| 2022 | — | — | 92 | #1,788 |
| 2021 | — | — | 95 | #1,715 |
| 2020 | — | — | 126 | #1,389 |
| 2019 | — | — | 122 | #1,436 |
| 2018 | — | — | 145 | #1,271 |
| 2017 | — | — | 132 | #1,355 |
| 2016 | — | — | 146 | #1,255 |
| 2015 | — | — | 171 | #1,122 |
| 2014 | — | — | 234 | #916 |
| 2013 | — | — | 249 | #859 |
| 2012 | — | — | 265 | #826 |
| 2011 | — | — | 266 | #818 |
| 2010 | — | — | 282 | #782 |
| 2009 | — | — | 395 | #635 |
| 2008 | — | — | 371 | #655 |
| 2007 | — | — | 425 | #595 |
| 2006 | — | — | 467 | #542 |
| 2005 | — | — | 458 | #531 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,316 | 481 | #509 |
| 2003 | — | — | 533 | #471 |
| 2002 | — | — | 609 | #414 |
| 2001 | — | — | 616 | #406 |
| 2000 | — | — | 696 | #378 |
| 1999 | — | — | 729 | #360 |
| 1998 | — | — | 783 | #343 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,766 | 736 | #350 |
| 1996 | — | — | 871 | #302 |
| 1995 | — | — | 859 | #308 |
| 1994 | — | — | 948 | #288 |
| 1993 | — | — | 967 | #286 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,023 | #279 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,068 | #254 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,090 | #250 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,269 | 985 | #258 |
| 1988 | — | — | 891 | #264 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,431 | 787 | #279 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,945 | 726 | #288 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,834 | 756 | #276 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,635 | 584 | #327 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,404 | 559 | #332 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,205 | 526 | #352 |
| 1981 | — | — | 498 | #353 |
| 1980 | — | — | 381 | #423 |
| 1979 | — | — | 271 | #510 |
| 1978 | — | — | 253 | #517 |
| 1977 | — | — | 224 | #560 |
| 1976 | — | — | 209 | #557 |
| 1975 | — | — | 157 | #658 |
| 1974 | — | — | 135 | #708 |
| 1973 | — | — | 145 | #663 |
| 1972 | — | — | 111 | #753 |
| 1971 | — | — | 92 | #850 |
| 1970 | — | — | 73 | #936 |
| 1969 | — | — | 74 | #888 |
| 1968 | — | — | 56 | #990 |
| 1967 | — | — | 45 | #1,108 |
| 1966 | — | — | 45 | #1,106 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,345 |
| 1964 | — | — | 43 | #1,180 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,389 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,181 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,912 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,746 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,543 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,436 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #1,978 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,092 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,160 |
| 1953 | — | — | 18 | #1,867 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,206 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,565 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,178 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,704 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,389 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,482 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).