Jonavan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Jonavan by the numbers
Jonavan was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 28 babies in 2007, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jonavan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jonavan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Jonatangod has given; variant of Jonathan45 in the US (2017)
- Jonaven5 in the US (2017)
- Jonathanyahweh has given; god's gift6,476 in the US (2017)
- Jovanjupiter; relating to Jove42 in England and Wales (2025)
- JhonatanGod has given; a spelling variant of Jonathan13 in the US (2017)
- JonanGod is gracious; a form of Jonah or Jonathan12 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jonavan
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