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Boy's name · #508 in the US (2025) · 90s wave
Johnathan's best rank, #108, came in 1990; it has settled back to #508 today. Roughly 98,000 boys have been named Johnathan since 1881.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#685 in Canada (2025) · #762 in Scotland (2025) · #2,014 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #2,634 in Austria (2025) · #755 in Ireland (2021) · #5,906 in Ecuador (2020) · #4,879 in France (2015) · #387 in N. Ireland (2010) · #408 in New Zealand (2007) · #441 in Puerto Rico (2005).
Among 110 notable people named Johnathan:
Sports figures appear 3.17× more often than among typical names — e.g. Johnathan Motley, American basketball player (born 1995).
Johnathan is the less common spelling of Jonathan — about 13% of babies given the name are written this way; Jonathan itself ranked #89 in 2025.
Similar names: Jonathan · Zachariah · Jonas · Jared · Jake · Joel
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