girls:
349 births since 1969
#5367 (6th percentile)
boys:
97.1k births since 1881
#312 (93rd percentile)
overall:
97.4k births since 1881
#698 (91st percentile)
The name Johnathan is the #698 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 97,426 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 91.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #312 (93.2% percentile) for all time with 97,077 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,367 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 349 births since 1969.
Johnathan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Johnathan is available in 112 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 33 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Johnathan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Johnathan reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 86.3% percentile (ranked #106) with 1,508 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 1,508 births per million (ranked 86.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Johnathan ranks #422 for boys (53.7% percentile) with 353 births per million, which is 23.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johnathan reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #757) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnathan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Johnathan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Johnathan is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nuh-thuhn, at 14.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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