Jonatan

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jonatan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Ecuador it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 211◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 384
  • SESweden1 in 416

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1M ●

across 11 countries

#189 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
604 ●

7.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 211 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

JonathanLatin · English●5.7M records
יונתןHebrew · Hebrew●80K records
ዮናታንEthiopic · Amharic●333 records
โจนาธรThai · Thai●10 records
জনাথনBengali · Bangla●8 records
조나단Hangul · Korean●7 records
ΤζόναθανGreek · Greek●2 records
ҶонатанCyrillic · Tajik●0 records
ՋոնաթանArmenian · Armenian●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jonathan in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 21 more and יונתן in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Jonatan (m.fl. former) är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung med betydelsen ’Guds gåva, Gud har givit (barnet)’. Namnet blev populärt i Sverige på 1980-talet efter hjälten i Astrid Lindgrens bok Bröderna Lejonhjärta (1973), som filmatiserades 1977. Namnet har varit mycket populärt under flera årtionden men är nu på nedgång. I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 december och i den finlandssvenska 26 januari.

Sources 3

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jonatan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1411,245,727598K rec.—400Jonathan150
US United States#80716,2324.7M rec.1 in 464716KJonathan604
GB United Kingdom#70494,707308K rec.—4Jonathan337
MX Mexico#162327,950222K rec.—235Jonathan234
VE Venezuela#70313,72891K rec.—8.1KJonathan94
PH Philippines#31312,985224K rec.——Jonathan180
AU Australia#133159,273113K rec.—110Jonathan282
PE Peru#230142,931122K rec.——Jonathan88
CA Canada#91131,76293K rec.—34Jonathan266
IL Israel#66128,772147K rec.—453יונתן136
CL Chile#148124,55214K rec.—5Jonathan156
FR France—105,520△4.5K rec.1 in 643106KJonatan146

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese771K47%
  • Spanish705K43%
  • English63K4%
  • Catalan19K1%
  • Polish11K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese770,55847%
Spanish705,28243%
English63,3674%
Catalan19,3801%
Polish10,7961%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jonatan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name13K records spelled Jonatan91 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Jonathan, Yonatan, Джонатан, Jhonatan, Johnathan

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name13K records spelled Jonatan11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Jónatan, Jonatán

  • Indonesian given name3.7K records spelled Jonatan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jonâtãn

  • a separate given name3.0K records spelled Jonatan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ecuador, Sweden

    Also written Jonatán, Jónatan, Jônatan

  • Thai given name1.8K records spelled Jonatan34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Jonathan, โจนาธาน, Johathan, โจนาทาน, Jönäthän

  • Hungarian given name548 records spelled Jonatan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, Sweden

    Also written Jonatán, Jőnątan, Jonatàn, Jonátán, Jónatán

  • Italian given name430 records spelled Jonatan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, Peru

    Also written Jönätän

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jonatan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, Jonathan (in the 1992 translation).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015019401960198020002020141 · 1988

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Jonatan in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1928–2021
Yearrecords
19281
19291
19322
19341
19371
19381
19392
19401
19411
19432
19444
19461
19471
19482
19491
19523
19531
19541
19551
19561
19571
19583
19595
19611
19622
19634
19641
19654
19669
19675
19684
19696
19706
19714
19727
19738
19747
19758
197619
197720
197818
197928
198062
198156
198265
198376
198479
1985122
1986133
1987122
1988141
1989122
1990110
1991139
1992121
1993122
199496
1995115
199681
199789
199859
199972
200059
200156
200241
200341
200441
200527
200627
200723
200827
200925
201023
201123
201214
201310
201412
201510
20166
201713
20188
20199
20202
20215

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 84 years between 1928–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Jussi Björling, b. 1911Yehonatan Geffen, b. 1947Jonathan Sagall, b. 1959Jonatan Johansson, b. 1975Jonatan Söderström, b. 1985Jonatan Cerrada, b. 1985Jonatan Lucca, b. 1994Yung Lean, b. 1996Jonatan Christie, b. 1997Jonathan Mergui, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Jonatan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—72K#606
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202248K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—48K#579
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19K#352
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—19K#156
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8.1K#462
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20205.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#4,309
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.1K#710
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262.3K#322
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.3K#319
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.9K#1,074

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 747 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jonatan?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Jonatan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Jonatan have the most bearers?
Jonatan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled jonathan.
Where is Jonatan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jonatan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 211 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jonatan compared with other names?
In Argentina, Jonatan is the 141st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Jonatan a male or female name?
Jonatan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jonatan” — the 141st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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