# Jonathon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jonathon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 65,836 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65,612 / 224 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,245, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 16 | 4,721 |
| 1986 | 21 | 3,936 |
| 1987 | 16 | 4,945 |
| 1988 | 17 | 4,937 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,453 |
| 1990 | 12 | 7,065 |
| 1991 | 9 | 8,921 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,984 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,094 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,484 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,413 |
| 1996 | 8 | 9,979 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,774 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,951 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13,392 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 398 | 609 |
| 2012 | 364 | 654 |
| 2013 | 286 | 790 |
| 2014 | 272 | 831 |
| 2015 | 254 | 877 |
| 2016 | 207 | 988 |
| 2017 | 195 | 1,032 |
| 2018 | 194 | 1,049 |
| 2019 | 168 | 1,160 |
| 2020 | 147 | 1,257 |
| 2021 | 119 | 1,499 |
| 2022 | 123 | 1,471 |
| 2023 | 134 | 1,386 |
| 2024 | 114 | 1,540 |
| 2025 | 119 | 1,488 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 38 | 698 |
| 2007 | 34 | 782 |
| 2008 | 29 | 916 |
| 2009 | 19 | 1,265 |
| 2010 | 15 | 1,551 |
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 16 | 1,507 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |

## People named Jonathon

- Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player (born 1989)
- Jonathon Blum, American ice hockey player
- Jonathon Lillis, American freestyle skier
- Jonathon Young, Canadian actor
- David Shulkin, 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Ed Davey, British politician (born 1965)
- Simon Gallup, British bassist
- Jonathan Bate, British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar
- Rory J. Saper, British actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.