Yonathan
#4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 65 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,455since 1983
Yonathan over time
Rank among boys' names. Yonathan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #3,103 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #3,586 | 30 |
| 2016 | #3,059 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,365 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,038 | 37 |
| 2013 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #2,129 | 62 |
| 2010 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | #2,039 | 68 |
| 2007 | #2,071 | 66 |
| 2006 | #2,037 | 65 |
| 2005 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #2,115 | 40 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yonathan! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yonathan is popular in 1988
No state had 5 or more boys named Yonathan in 1988, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yonathan
- 1,204 spots since 2024 (#3,045 → #4,249)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #4,249)
- 884 spots since 2015 (#3,365 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2006 at #2,037 (65 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,518 boys born in 2010 were named Yonathan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,037 in 2006, was only 1 in 31,620 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.9% of all boys named Yonathan (522) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 75 | #3,203 (1988) | #4,423 |
| 1990s | 261 | #2,115 (1996) | #2,942 |
| 2000s | 522 | #2,037 (2006) | #2,267 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,069 (2010) | #2,945 |
| 2020s | 175 | #3,045 (2024) | #3,810 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yonathan in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 119,643 of them was named Yonathan, which outranked 62.3% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,079Vittorio17
- #3,079Zackory17
- #3,079Zeth17
- #3,203Yonathan16
- #3,203Abdel16
- #3,203Alma16
- #3,203Alphonse16
- #3,350Aden15
- #3,350Adrienne15
- #3,350Albino15
Tied with 146 names at #3,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.