Given name & surname
Jonan
“he will be gracious”·“Yah is gracious”
Jonan is used as a given name and a surname.
Original GreekΙωναν
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Jonan is thought to mean “he will be gracious” or “Yah is gracious.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Jonan is a biblical name, probably from Greek.
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How it developed
Possibly from the Hebrew verb hanan (חנן), “to be gracious.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Jonan appears in Luke 3:30.
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Jonan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 265
- 265 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,275 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,275 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 390 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jonan’s family of names
Jonan may belong to the same name family as JONANN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 15
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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