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Jonan

Boy · JOH-nun · Hebrew

Jonan is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).

What does Jonan mean?

Hebrew: biblical name, a Greek form of a Hebrew name

Jonan appears in Luke's genealogy of Jesus as an ancestor named in Luke 3:30.

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JOH-nun

Is Jonan a girl's or a boy's name?

Jonan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jonan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,906among boys
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 210,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Jonan, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the boys named Jonan in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1981Busiest: 16 in 20142025
Jonan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
20240–
202310#7,733
20228#8,983
202111#7,084
20207#9,548
20195#12,138
20180–
201713#6,334
201610#7,600
201514#5,995
201416#5,481
201312#6,598
201215#5,714
201114#5,939
20108#8,797
200910#7,687
200813#6,388
200711#7,090
20068#8,726
20058#8,292
20040–
200313#5,551
20028#7,636
20016#9,236
20007#8,202
19996#8,697
19987#7,553
19970–
19967#7,129
19950–
19945#8,794
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19815#6,260

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