Jonathan (name)

Jonathan
	Jonathan and David
Pronunciation	English: /ˈdʒɒnəθən/ JON-ə-thən; Finnish: [ˈjoːnɑtɑn]; Dutch: [ˈjoːnaːtɑn] ⓘ; French: [ʒɔnatɑ̃]; German: [ˈjoːnatan]; Spanish: [ˈɟʝonatan]
Gender	Male
Language	English
Name day	Finland: 26 January,; France: 1 March,; United States: 26 April,; Sweden: 22 December,; Germany: 29 December
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew (Israel)
Meaning	God has given
Other names
Nicknames	Jon; Jon Jon; Jonny; Jonty; Jono;
Related names	Jack; Jon; Jonatan; Jonatas; Nathan; Nathanael; Nathaniel;

Jonathan (Hebrew: יְהוֹנָתָן/יוֹנָתָן, Standard: Yehōnatan/Yōnatan, Tiberian: Yŏhōnāṯān/Yōnāṯān^[1]) is a common name given to males which means "YHWH has given" in Hebrew.^[2]^[3] The earliest known use of the name was in the Bible; one Jonathan was the son of King Saul, a close friend of David.

Variants of Jonathan include Jonatan, Djonathan. Biblical variants include Yehonathan, Y'honathan, Yhonathan, Yonathan, Yehonatan, Yonatan, Yonaton, Yonoson, Yeonoson or Yehonasan. In Israel, "Yoni" is a common nickname for Yonatan (Jonathan) in the same way Jonny is in English.^[4]

The name was the 31st-most-popular boys' name in the United States in 2011, according to the SSA.^[5]

List of alternatives

Arabic: يوناثان,^[6] جوناثان
Amharic: ዮናታን
Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܘܿܢܵܕ݂ܵܡ, romanized: Yōnāḏām
- Classical Syriac: ܝܘܢܬܢ, romanized: Yōnāṯān
- Targumic Imperial Aramaic: יוֹנָתָן‬, romanized: Yônāṯān
Armenian: Հովնաթան, romanized: Hovnatan
Chinese: 乔纳森 (simplified), 喬納森 (traditional), romanized: Qiáonàsēn (Qiáo'nà'sēn)
Czech: Jonatán, Jonatan
Croatian: Jonatan
Dutch: Jonathan, Jonatan
Estonian: Joonatan
Fijian: Jonacani
Filipino: Jonathan
Finnish: Joonatan
French: Jonathan
Georgian: იონათანი, romanized: ionatani
German: Jonathan, Jonatan
Greek: Ιωνάθαν, romanized: Ionáthan
Hawaiian: Ionakana
Hebrew: יהונתן, romanized: Yehonatan
Hungarian: Jonatán
Icelandic: Jónatan, Jonathan
Indonesian: Yonatan, Jonathan
Irish: Seanachán, Ionatán
Italian: Gionata
Japanese: ヨナタン, romanized: Yonatan
Korean: 요나단, romanized: Yonadan
Latin: Ionathan, Ionathas
Lithuanian: Jonatanas
Māori: Honatana
Persian: جاناتان
Polish: Jonatan, Jonathan
Portuguese: Jónatas, Jônatas, Jonatão
Romanian: Ionatan, Ion
Russian: Ионафан, romanized: Ionafan
Samoan: Ionatana
Slovak: Jonatán
Spanish: Jonatán, Yónathan
Swedish: Jonatan
Tongan: Sonatane
Tigrinya: ዮናታን
Yoruba: Jonatani

People

Jonathan Amaral, known as Jonathan Gaming (born 2002), Indian professional esports player
Jonathan Antoine (born 1995), English classically trained tenor
Jonathan Aspropotamitis (born 1996), Australian professional footballer
Jonathan Asselin (born 1958), Canadian equestrian
Jonathan Augustinsson (born 1996), Swedish footballer
Jonathan Bailey (born 1988), English actor
Jonny Bairstow (born 1989), English cricketer
Jonathan Banks (born 1947), American actor
Jonathan Barnet (1677/78–1745), English privateer in the Caribbean
Jonathan Barry (born 1988), Bahamian cricketer
Jonathan Bartley (born 1971), British politician, former co-leader of the Green Party
Jonathan Bennett (disambiguation), multiple people
Jon Bernthal (born 1976), American actor
Jonathan Bilbao (born 1999), Venezuelan-Peruvian footballer
Jonathan Borlee (born 1988), Belgian athlete
Jonathan Brady (born 2003), American football player
Jonathan Brandis (1976–2003), American actor
Jonathan Brewer (born 1987), American football coach
Jonny Brownlee (born 1990), British triathlete
Jonny Buckland (born 1977), British musician
Jonathan Castroviejo (born 1987), Spanish cyclist
Jonathan Chan (born 1997), Singaporean former diver
Jonathan Cheung (born 1981), Chinese actor
Jonathan Chu (tennis) (born 1983), American former professional tennis player
Jonathan Conricus (born 1979), Israeli IDF Lieutenant-Colonel (ret), IDF International Spokesperson
Jonathan Copete, (born 1988), Colombian footballer
Jonathan Cuenú (born 1986), Colombian footballer
Jonathan Dakin (born 1973), English cricketer
Jonathan David (born 2000), professional soccer player
Jonathan Davis (born 1971), American musician
Jonathan Demme (1944–2017), American filmmaker
Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722), merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica
Jonathan Dickinson (1688–1747), co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University)
Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), British presenter
Jonathan dos Santos (born 1990), Mexican professional footballer
Jonathan Edwards (born 1966), British triple-jumper
Jonathan Emile (born 1986), Jamaican Canadian singer, rapper, record producer and cancer survivor
Jonathan Erlich (born 1977), Israeli former professional tennis player
Jonathan Escoffery, American writer
Jonny Evans (born 1988), Northern Irish footballer
Jonathan Farinha (born 1996), Trinidadian sprinter
Jon Favreau (born 1966), American filmmaker and actor
Jonathan Fox (born 1991), British Paralympic swimmer
Jonathan Glazer (born 1965), English filmmaker
Jonathan Goble, an American Baptist minister and missionary
Jonny Greenwood (born 1971), English musician
Jonathan Groff (born 1985), American actor and singer
Jonathan de Guzman (born 1987), Canadian-born Dutch footballer
Jonathan Haidt (born 1963), American social psychologist and author
Jon Hamm (born 1971), American actor
Jonathan Hawkins (1983–2025), British chess grandmaster
Jonny Howson (born 1988), English footballer
Jonathan Igbinovia (born 1980), Nigerian tennis player
Jonathan India (born 1996), American professional baseball infielder
Jonathan Joseph (born 1991), English rugby union player
Jonathan Joss (1965–2025), American actor
Jonathan Kim (born 1960), South Korean film producer
Jonathan Kings, New Zealand diplomat
Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver (born 1981), American mixed martial artist known as War Machine
Jonathan LaPaglia (born 1969), Australian actor and television personality
Jonathan Larson (1960–1996), American composer, lyricist and playwright
Jonathan Lear (1948–2025), American philosopher and psychoanalyst
Jon Lewis (born 1975), English cricketer and coach
Jonathan Lipnicki (born 1990), American child actor
Jonathan Maicelo (born 1983), Peruvian professional boxer
Jonathan Majors (born 1989), American actor
Jonathan Malaya, Filipino writer, author, businessman, and public official
Jonathan Mangum (born 1971), American comedian
Jonathan Marray (born 1981), English tennis player
Jonathan Mexique (born 1995), footballer
Jonathan Miramontes (born 1988), Mexican footballer
Jonathan Moreira (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer
Jon Moss (born 1970), English football referee
Jonathan Netanyahu (born 1946), Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid and died in action.
Jonathan Nolan (born 1976), British-American screenwriter
Jonathan Osorio (born 1992), Canadian professional soccer player
Jonathan Overpeck (born 1957), American climate scientist
Jonathan Owens (born 1995), American football player and husband of female American gymnast Simone Biles
Jonathan Paget (born 1983), New Zealand equestrian
Jonathan Pryce (born 1947), Welsh actor
Jonathan Rea (born 1987), Northern Irish motorcycle racer
Jonty Rhodes (born 1969), South African cricketer
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born 1977), Irish actor
Jonathan Ross (born 1960), English broadcaster
Jonathan Roy (born 1989), Canadian pop singer and songwriter
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), American politician
Johnny Sexton (born 1985), Irish rugby union player
J. K. Simmons (born 1955), American actor
Jon Snow (born 1947), English journalist and television presenter
Jonathan Stedall (1938–2022), English television producer and documentary filmmaker
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish author
Jonathan Tiersten (1965–2026), American actor
Jonathan Trott (born 1981), South African-born English cricketer
Jonathan Van-Tam (born 1964), British healthcare professional
Jon Voigt (born 1938), American actor
Jonathan Watson, Scottish actor
Jonathan Welsh (1947–2005), Canadian actor
Jonathan Wentz (1990–2012), American Paralympic equestrian competitor
Jonathan Wilkes (born 1978) English television presenter, entertainer and singer
Jonathan Winters (1925–2013) American comedian, actor, and artist
Jonathan Wong (born 1986), Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor and producer
Jonathan Woodgate (born 1980), English footballer
Jonathan Yardley (born 1939), American author and book critic

References

↑ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78374-676-7.
↑ "MFnames.com – Origin and Meaning of Jonathan". Archived from the original on 2009-05-30. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
↑ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, p. 147.
↑ Slobin, Dan Isaac (1985). The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition: Theoretical Issues. Psychology Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-89859-367-9. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
↑ Popularly Baby Names, Social Security Online
↑ "Jonathan name with Arabic Calligraphy". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

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[1] Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78374-676-7.

[2] "MFnames.com – Origin and Meaning of Jonathan". Archived from the original on 2009-05-30. Retrieved 2009-04-26.

[3] Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, p. 147.

[4] Slobin, Dan Isaac (1985). The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition: Theoretical Issues. Psychology Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-89859-367-9. Retrieved 2025-08-07.

[ssa.gov-5] Popularly Baby Names, Social Security Online

[6] "Jonathan name with Arabic Calligraphy". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

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Jonathan (name)

List of alternatives

People

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References