Johnathan is a contracted form of the Hebrew name Yehonatan meaning ‘Yahweh has given’, derived from the roots ‘yeho’ referring to the Hebrew God and ‘natan’ meaning ‘to give’.
Johnathan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Johnathan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Johnathan ranks 330. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Johnathan. In the entire USA, approximately 93,680 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Johnathan. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Johnathan is a contracted form of the Hebrew name Yehonatan meaning ‘Yahweh has given’, derived from the roots ‘yeho’ referring to the Hebrew God and ‘natan’ meaning ‘to give’.
In the US,... the spelling Johnathan had its highest popularity around 1990.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Johnathan occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Johnathan is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Johnathan is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 93,675 men and boys of all generations bear the name Johnathan – that is one in 1,782. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Johnathan, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 11,863 men for their name to get Johnathan as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With nine letters, the name Johnathan is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Johnathan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Johnathan, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Hat
Nut
Apple
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Johnathan
Johnathan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
H
N
A
T
H
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
H
N
A
T
H
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Johnathan sounds like this:
