first name
JOHNATHON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,727 people named Johnathon, 69.6% reported their origin as White, 14.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.7% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Johnathon peaked in 1990, when 1,090 babies got the name.
At least 25,652 babies have been given the name since 1919. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Johnathon by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #615. The largest share of babies named Johnathon, 51.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Johnathon is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Johnathon has been most common in Indiana (1.9×), Kentucky (1.9×), and Tennessee (1.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.12×).
22,894 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Johnathon, most common first.
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