girls:
52 births since 1982
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
25.5k births since 1919
#720 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.5k births since 1919
#1590 (79th percentile)
The name Johnathon is the #1,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,520 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 79.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #720 (84.3% percentile) for all time with 25,468 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1982.
Johnathon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Johnathon is available in 77 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (77 years for boys and 9 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 Johnathon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Johnathon reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 68.8% percentile (ranked #241) with 506 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 506 births per million (ranked 68.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Johnathon ranks #851 for boys (6.6% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 7.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johnathon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnathon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Johnathon", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 44 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jonathan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jonathan..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Johnathon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Johnathon is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nuh-thuhn, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AA1 N AH0 TH AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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