Jonathan

Where Jonathan comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew יְהוֹנָתָן (yəhōnāṯān), יוֹנָתָן (yōnāṯān, literally “God has given”), apparently with influence from Aramaic [Term?].
— Wiktionary's entry for Jonathan
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1667
    Jonathan Swift born
    Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1925
    Jonathan Winters born
    American comedian, actor, artist
  4. 1988
    Peak, #15
    24,349 babies named Jonathan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #29.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Jonathan Swift · Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist, 1667–1745
  • Jonathan Winters · American comedian, actor, artist, 1925–2013
  • Jonathan Demme · American filmmaker, 1944–2017
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Irish actor, born 1977
  • Jonathan Tah · German footballer, born 1996

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.