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Jhoana vs Jhonathan

American parents have registered 925 Jhonathans since 1880, against 622 Jhoanas. Jhonathan is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jhoana against Jhonathan, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jhoana Jhonathan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Jhonathan for 38 years and Jhoana for 7 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jhoana Jhonathan
Total US births 622925
Most in one year 4640
Babies in 2025 714
Estimated living today 620910
Median age today 2021
Peak year 20062000
Best rank 3,469th girls2,379th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd6,143rd
First recorded 19811973
Girls / boys 622 / 00 / 925

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jhoana and Jhonathan.