How to write “Jonathan, Johnathan or Jonathon” in Korean

조나단 jo-na-dan Listen to 조나단, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 조나단아 jo-na-da-na — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 조나단 씨 jo-na-dan-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Jonathan

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 조너선; most Koreans write 조나단.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Jonathan Swift 조너선 (sometimes 조나단); Jonathan Bailey 조나단 (sometimes 조너선); Jonathan Majors 조나단 (sometimes 조너선).

Well-known people named Jonathan, Johnathan or Jonathon, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Jonathan Davis — 조나단 데이비스
• Jonathan Castro Otto — 조나단 카스트로 오토
• Jonathan Walters — 조나단 월터스
• Jonathan Osorio — 조나단 오소리오

836,414 babies were named Jonathan in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 30th most common name.

Block by block

• 조 = ㅈ + ㅗ · 4 strokes
  • ㅈ 지읒 (j) · 2 strokes
  • ㅗ 오 (o) · 2 strokes

  Also in 조: Joshua 조슈아 · Joseph 조셉 · Jordan 조던

• 나 = ㄴ + ㅏ · 3 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 나: Hannah 한나 · Brianna 브리애나 · Natalie 나탈리

• 단 = ㄷ + ㅏ + ㄴ · 5 strokes
  • ㄷ 디귿 (d / t) · 2 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke

  Also in 단: Ethan 에단 · Dante 단테 · Adan 아단

조나단 takes 12 strokes in all.

More names: Benjamin 벤저민 · Christian 크리스천 · Zachary 재커리 · Isabella 이저벨라 · Dylan 딜런

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