Jonathan (46 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Jonathan

Our model has identified 46 different spellings of Jonathan that are grouped together because they share at least one of 3 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 81.0% confident that Jonathan is pronounced as JAH-nuh-thuhn. There are 44 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Jonathan is JOH-nuh-thuhn, at 9.5% confidence. There are 21 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

JAH-nuh-thuhn

97.8%

1,070,424

99.97%

81.0%

JOH-nuh-thuhn

47.8%

1,065,871

99.55%

9.5%

juh-NUH-thuhn

13.0%

868,110

81.08%

9.5%

JAH-nuh-thuhn (3 syllables)

45 names (97.8% of variations) 99.97% of births

JH AA1 N AH0 TH AH0 N

Jonathan

Verified

Confidence: 81.0%

Johnathan

Verified

Confidence: 85.4%

Jonathon

Verified

Confidence: 89.4%

Johnathon

Verified

Confidence: 87.5%

Confidence: 28.9%

Confidence: 17.1%

Confidence: 50.0%

Confidence: 90.3%

Confidence: 82.4%

Confidence: 11.1%

JOH-nuh-thuhn (3 syllables)

22 names (47.8% of variations) 99.55% of births

JH OW1 N AH0 TH AH0 N

Confidence: 9.5%

Confidence: 14.6%

Confidence: 10.6%

Confidence: 12.5%

Confidence: 7.9%

Confidence: 28.6%

Confidence: 27.8%

Confidence: 27.8%

Confidence: 38.2%

Confidence: 13.5%

juh-NUH-thuhn (3 syllables)

6 names (13.0% of variations) 81.08% of births

JH AH0 N AH1 TH AH0 N

Confidence: 9.5%

Confidence: 17.6%

Confidence: 40.5%

Confidence: 9.1%

Confidence: 6.3%

Confidence: 12.5%

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

Should "Jonathan" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Jonathen 1.5k births

Jonethen 6 births

JAW-nuh-thuhn (3 syllables)

3 names 1.4k births

JH AO1 N AH0 TH AH0 N

Should "Jonathan" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Johnathen 1.3k births

Johnathn 34 births

Jonhathan 5 births

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. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.