Johathan
Johathan reached its high-water mark in 1988 at number 897, and has been recorded 1,936 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 1,800 Johathans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Johathan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,936
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 897th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1955
How old the living Johathans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,936 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,800 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Johathan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Johathan is most concentrated in California (3.7×), Texas (2.0×), New York (1.9×), Missouri (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular boys’ names the year Johathan peaked:
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Johathan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.