Jonatan

Where Jonatan comes from

Jonatan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,375 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Jonatan Johansson born
    Finnish association football player and manager
  3. 1995
    Peak, #896
    149 babies named Jonatan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1997
    Jonatan Christie born
    Indonesian badminton player
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,983.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jonatan Johansson · Finnish association football player and manager, born 1975
  • Jonatan Christie · Indonesian badminton player, born 1997
  • Jonatan Hellvig · Swedish beach volleyball player, born 2001
  • Jonatan Cerrada · singer, born 1985
  • Jonatan Valle · Spanish footballer, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.