Jonathan

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Ιωναθαν (Ionathan), a Greek form of the Hebrew name יוֹנָתָן (Yonatan), which is a contracted form of Hebrew יְהוֹנָתָן (Yehonatan) meaning 'Yahweh has given' (see also JO and Nathan) ^[1]

Related Names

Jonatan	♂
Jónatan	♂
Jonathan	♂
Jonatine	♀
Joonatan	♂
Juuna	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1657 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	2	15427	20241
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	4466	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	1838	2421
Finland[5]		n.a.	2	n.a	2337
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[2][3][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi