In 2025, 45 US boys were named Yonatan, making it the 2,832nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 488 places from #2,344 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 61 boys named Yonatan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,367, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 100, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,893 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yonatan in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 2,551 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 868 babies named Yonatan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 561 US boys were named Yonatan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yonatan ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,407 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) and Yonathan (1,455 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yonaton are summarised on this page.