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)
The name Jonathan is the #56 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 866,440 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #37 (99.2% percentile) for all time with 862,870 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,887 (49.5% percentile) for all time with 3,570 births since 1954.
Jonathan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1954 for girls).
The name Jonathan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jonathan reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 98.1% percentile (ranked #15) with 12,160 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 12,531 births per million (ranked 97.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jonathan ranks #80 for boys (91.3% percentile) with 2,220 births per million, which is 17.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jonathan reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 22.6% percentile (ranked #610) with 101 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 101 births per million (ranked 22.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jonathan ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonathan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jonathan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Jonathan is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NUH-thuhn, at 9.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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.
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