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Jonathan

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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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] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Ionatan ♂ Danish Swedish
Ionathan ♂ Danish Swedish
Johnatan ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Johnathan ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Jonatan ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jónatan ♂
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 Faroese Icelandic
Jonathan ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Jónathan ♂
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 Faroese
Joonatan ♂
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 Finish Swedish
Yonatan ♂ Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Yonathan ♂ Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Jona, Jonte, Jûnatât

For female forms see Jonatine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jonathaninpoika Finland
Jonathansen Denmark Norway
Jonathanssen Norway
Jonathansson Iceland Sweden

Female

Jonathanintytär Finland
Jonathansdatter Denmark Norway
Jonathansdotter Sweden
Jonathansdóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jonathan
Genitive: Jonathans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jonathan
Genitive: Jonathanin
Partitive: Jonathania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Jonathan
Accusative: Jonathan
Dative: Jonathan
Genitive: Jonathans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jonathan
Genitive: Jonathans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jonathan
Genitive: Jonathans

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • Jonathan was the oldest son of Saul in the in the Old Testament

Namesakes

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
17586 23654 13 20 17573 23634
Denmark Denmark[6]
6121
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 6120
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 3278 0 0
n.a.
 3278
Greenland Greenland[8]
63 249
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
36 42
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
4070
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 4070
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Jonathan (m) Sources: [5][6][10][7]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Jonathan (m) Sources: [11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Jonathan (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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