Yonathan
A Hebrew name meaning "god has given". In Poland it barely registers: around 60 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Yonathan Pronunciation
What Yonathan means
Where Yonathan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yonathan comes from Hebrew, from the older form Yehonatan. The name breaks into two parts: the divine name YHWH, and a verb of giving. Put together they say god has given, jahwe dał. The spelling Yonathan keeps the fuller vowel that many Polish registers trim to Jonatan.
The Hebrew Bible gives the name its most famous bearer. Jonathan, son of King Saul, bound himself in friendship to David and warned him against his own father's spear (1 Samuel). His story fixed the name inside Jewish tradition long before it traveled west. So the Jewish association here is not decoration. It is the ground the name grew from.
The meaning rewards a plain reading. Someone named Yonathan is marked as a gift, and the giver is named too. That grammar has stayed intact for close to three thousand years.
On a Polish class register, Yonathan stands out beside the domesticated Jonatan. The h is the tell. It signals the Hebrew original rather than the Polish softening, and it hands the child back the full word: jahwe dał.
How many people are named Yonathan
1 in 349938 men in Poland is named Yonathan. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4735 among male names.
Yonathan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Yonathan as a middle name
Yonathan is a first name for 61 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5128th, between Yohann (5) and Yoni (5).
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#5126 Yiğit5
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#5127 Yohann5
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#5128 Yonathan5
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#5129 Yoni5
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#5130 Yoseph5