Jonathan

girls:

3.6k births since 1954

#2887 (49th percentile)

boys:

862.9k births since 1880

#37 (99th percentile)

overall:

866.4k births since 1880

#56 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonathan".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,570
Peak Births
183
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1954
Peak Percentile
22.6%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#603
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
862,870
Peak Births
24,347
Peak Year
1988
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
98.1%
Current Percentile
91.3%
Peak Rank
#15
Current Rank
#80
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jonathan

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jonathan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.0% confident that Jonathan is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NUH-thuhn, at 9.5% confidence.

juh-NUH-thuhn (3 syllables)
9.5% confidence
JH AH0 N AH1 TH AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jonathan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jonathan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JAH-nuh-thehn (3 syllables)
2 names 1.5k births
JH AA1 N AH0 TH EH0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

JAW-nuh-thuhn (3 syllables)
3 names 1.4k births
JH AO1 N AH0 TH AH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.