Yonatan
Barely present in Poland: only about 240 people carry it, and most Poles have never met one. It shortens the Hebrew Yehonatan, joining the name of God to the verb *natan*, he gave: god has given.
Yonatan Pronunciation
Yonatan is pronounced ih-o-NAH-tahn (/ɨɔˈnatan/).
What Yonatan means
Where Yonatan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yonatan comes from Hebrew, a shortened form of Yehonatan. The longer name joins a form of the divine name to the verb natan, meaning he gave. Read together, the parts say god has given. That short meaning is no later gloss; it sits inside the name's own grammar.
The best known Yonatan in Jewish tradition is Jonathan, son of King Saul. The book of Samuel records his friendship with David, a bond it calls stronger than the love of women. Because of that story, the name has long held an association of loyalty in Jewish families. The meaning holds.
In Poland the name reads as clearly Jewish in origin, though a Polonized Jonatan turns up too. A child called Yonatan might be entered in a school register beside a dozen Polish saints' names. The gift stays legible: god has given, dar od boga.
How many people are named Yonatan
1 in 87484 men in Poland is named Yonatan. 244 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1984 among male names.
Yonatan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Yonatan as a middle name
Yonatan is a first name for 244 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3034th, between Yohannes (11) and Yvon (11).
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#3032 Yilmaz11
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#3033 Yohannes11
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#3034 Yonatan11
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#3035 Yvon11
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#3036 Zafar11