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The name Jonathan is of Hebrew origin, and means Yahweh has given. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jonathan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jonathan**
Use of the Name Jonathan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
696,963	674,376	503,930	167,073	77,271	28,965	14,096

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jonathan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jonathan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	415	18
1881	369	21
1882	340	27
1883	423	18
1884	391	21
1885	311	30
1886	411	19
1887	612	10
1888	456	18
1889	537	13
1890	472	16
1891	541	12
1892	588	13
1893	735	9
1894	509	16
1895	724	10
1896	491	18
1897	488	17
1898	620	13
1899	825	8
1900	764	12
1901	752	9
1902	446	22
1903	496	19
1904	631	14
1905	651	14
1906	730	12
1907	841	11
1908	803	12
1909	738	15
1910	668	20
1911	633	24
1912	589	48
1913	612	52
1914	572	77
1915	639	83
1916	574	101
1917	604	97
1918	684	84
1919	733	76
1920	593	112
1921	578	120
1922	605	115
1923	648	99
1924	657	97
1925	590	114
1926	608	107
1927	606	106
1928	572	116
1929	637	93
1930	601	103
1931	543	116
1932	535	120
1933	501	126
1934	501	133
1935	444	165
1936	426	172
1937	394	198
1938	369	232
1939	316	297
1940	342	277
1941	305	356
1942	243	552
1943	245	572
1944	216	641
1945	179	879
1946	173	1,101
1947	177	1,196
1948	174	1,277
1949	164	1,426
1950	162	1,541
1951	147	1,768
1952	139	2,066
1953	133	2,329
1954	121	2,736
1955	116	3,014
1956	114	3,120
1957	124	3,037
1958	124	3,079
1959	124	3,083
1960	118	3,343
1961	111	3,475
1962	94	4,256
1963	88	4,472
1964	83	4,633
1965	74	4,722
1966	65	4,664
1967	56	4,916
1968	53	5,803
1969	46	7,068
1970	42	8,177
1971	40	8,614
1972	37	9,206
1973	31	10,255
1974	33	10,201
1975	30	10,896
1976	31	11,302
1977	28	12,299
1978	31	12,498
1979	31	14,313
1980	21	18,950
1981	16	22,547	953	154
1982	16	23,075	903	168
1983	19	22,722	864	176
1984	19	23,295	838	184
1985	17	24,095	885	181
1986	16	23,931	920	174
1987	18	23,065	926	178
1988	15	24,287	997	165
1989	17	23,590
1990	17	24,042
1991	20	22,950
1992	21	21,368
1993	22	19,910
1994	23	19,030
1995	23	18,121
1996	21	18,556
1997	21	18,498
1998	21	17,604
1999	22	17,023
2000	21	16,817
2001	23	16,075
2002	21	15,414
2003	22	14,869
2004	21	14,096
Totals:		696,963		1,380

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jonathan as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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