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The JONATHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 516 40019 0 2
United States (1880 census) 55 47079 0 1
Change since 1880 +461 +7060 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 75 18207 0 5
United Kingdom 227 15250 0 5
Top States for JONATHAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 85 18141 0.000 3
New York 83 14660 0.000 4
Florida 38 27361 0.000 2
New Jersey 23 27096 0.000 3
Texas 23 33509 0.000 1
Top States for JONATHAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 14 4485 0.002 22
New York 83 14660 0.000 4
Massachusetts 21 22581 0.000 3
Vermont 2 29849 0.000 3
North Dakota 2 25067 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JONATHAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JONATHAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JONATHAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JONATHAN by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JONATHAN

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of JONATHAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 266 51.55
Asian/Pacific 67 12.98
Black/African American 62 12.02
Native American/Alaskan 44 8.53
White (Hispanic) 39 7.56
Mixed Race 38 7.36

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JONATHAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JONATHAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of JONATHAN.

Similar names to JONATHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JONATHAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JONATHAN

The following words are slight variants of JONATHAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.