girls:
224 births since 1975
#5492 (4th percentile)
boys:
65.4k births since 1912
#412 (91st percentile)
overall:
65.6k births since 1912
#910 (88th percentile)
The name Jonathon is the #910 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,604 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 88.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #412 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 65,380 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,492 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 224 births since 1975.
Jonathon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Jonathon is available in 102 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (102 years for boys and 23 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 Jonathon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jonathon reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 84.2% percentile (ranked #122) with 1,240 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 1,240 births per million (ranked 84.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jonathon ranks #782 for boys (14.2% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jonathon reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #772) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% 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 "Jonathon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jonathon", 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 Jonathon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.4% confident that Jonathon is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nuh-thuhn, at 10.6% 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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