Meaning not yet researched.
Yonathan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,060 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,060 in 2008; #4,388 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yonathan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,388 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #2,060.
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Yonathan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,060 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 68 (2008).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Yonathan, making it the 4,388th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,286 places from #3,102 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 40 boys named Yonathan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,060, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #3,428 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yonathan in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 1,455 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 522 babies named Yonathan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 309 US boys were named Yonathan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jonathan (874,440 babies since 1880) and Yonatan (2,551 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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.
No nicknames listed for Yonathan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,388 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,102 |
| 2023 | — | — | 34 | #3,471 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,084 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,113 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,270 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,142 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,886 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,671 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,109 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,428 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,089 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,526 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,866 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,144 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,099 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,230 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,060 |
| 2007 | — | — | 66 | #2,093 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,060 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,564 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,641 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,237 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,752 |
| 2001 | — | — | 46 | #2,246 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,133 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,460 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,448 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,821 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,142 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,428 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,533 |
| 1993 | — | — | 23 | #3,040 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,667 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,633 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,306 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,155 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,348 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,518 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,879 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,594 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,331 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,329 |
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).