Yonatan is the Hebrew form of Jonathan and means "Yahweh has given" or "gift of God". In the Bible Yonatan is the son of King Saul and the loyal friend of David, and the spelling is the standard one in modern Israel. In the United States the name is used mainly in Jewish and Israeli families; it peaked at number 1367 in 2001 and has slipped to number 2832 in 2025.