Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English usage, Yehonatan developed from יהונתן.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yehonatan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,643 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −55%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,643 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2015.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yehonatan’s family of names
In English usage, Yehonatan developed from the Hebrew form יהונתן.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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