Yonatan
#2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,551since 1974
Yonatan over time
Rank among boys' names. Yonatan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #2,313 | 61 |
| 2023 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #2,355 | 60 |
| 2021 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,728 | 45 |
| 2019 | #2,188 | 64 |
| 2018 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #2,110 | 66 |
| 2015 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #1,884 | 77 |
| 2013 | #2,009 | 68 |
| 2012 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #2,035 | 66 |
| 2010 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2007 | #1,700 | 89 |
| 2006 | #1,526 | 98 |
| 2005 | #1,460 | 100 |
| 2004 | #1,653 | 78 |
| 2003 | #1,492 | 87 |
| 2002 | #1,406 | 93 |
| 2001 | #1,357 | 94 |
| 2000 | #1,653 | 70 |
| 1999 | #1,545 | 72 |
| 1998 | #1,642 | 63 |
| 1997 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #1,434 | 72 |
| 1995 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #2,255 | 31 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yonatan! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yonatan
- 485 spots since 2024 (#2,313 → #2,798)
- 70 spots since 2020 (#2,728 → #2,798)
- 928 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #2,798)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2001 at #1,357 (94 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,973 boys born in 2005 were named Yonatan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,957 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,357 in 2001, was only 1 in 20,669 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.0% of all boys named Yonatan (868) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 52 | #2,777 (1979) | #3,776 |
| 1980s | 186 | #1,962 (1986) | #2,877 |
| 1990s | 467 | #1,434 (1996) | #1,975 |
| 2000s | 868 | #1,357 (2001) | #1,593 |
| 2010s | 668 | #1,870 (2015) | #2,079 |
| 2020s | 310 | #2,313 (2024) | #2,573 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yonatan in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 126,295 of them was named Yonatan, which outranked 54.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,929Windell14
- #2,929Wyman14
- #2,929Yakov14
- #3,070Yonatan13
- #3,070Alaric13
- #3,070Albino13
- #3,070Aleksander13
- #3,215Acie12
- #3,215Adin12
- #3,215Alek12
Tied with 144 names at #3,070; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.