Jon

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jon is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hebrew; "God shall add".

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Hebrew; "God shall add". Nickname of John.

Sources 1

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Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.5M73%
  • Spanish237K7%
  • 123K4%
  • Norwegian51K2%
  • Portuguese43K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,459,49573%
Spanish236,5977%
122,6704%
Norwegian50,7782%
Portuguese43,1471%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jon is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name374K records spelled Jon38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Jón, Joñ, Jön, J'On, Jőn

  • a separate given name130K records spelled Jon8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jón, Jọn, Jōn, Jōn̲, Jòn

  • Indonesian given name15K records spelled Jon4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Jón

  • Finnish given name13K records spelled Jon8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Slovenia, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jón, Jön, Jõń

  • a separate given name7.6K records spelled Jon9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jöñ, Jôn, Jón, Jơn, Jõň

  • Polish given name7.3K records spelled Jon2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Jón

82 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Simplified spelling of John or short form of Jonathan.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Jon är en hopdragen form av → Johan. Namnet har varit vanligt i Sverige från medeltiden och framåt, men från 1800-talet har → John blivit vanligare. Jon uttalas i svenskan oftast med lång vokal, medan John sägs med kort vokal. I den rikssvenska almanackan 21 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 24 juni.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom., durch Zusammenziehung entstandene niederdeutsche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Many Saints See lan

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • The Lord’s grace.

    as a nameThe African book of names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.9K · 1964

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Jon in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–2025
Yearrecords
18985
19095
19106
19119
19128
191311
191417
191531
191620
191725
191830
191934
192050
192141
192258
192346
192455
192550
192655
192765
192867
192953
193086
193184
1932164
1933317
1934471
1935537
1936816
19371,030
19381,408
19391,451
19401,545
19411,545
19421,763
19431,752
19441,812
19452,043
19462,168
19472,307
19482,214
19491,884
19501,945
19511,961
19522,151
19532,714
19543,161
19553,056
19563,078
19573,467
19583,441
19593,976
19604,403
19614,608
19624,785
19634,750
19644,911
19654,601
19664,239
19674,160
19684,209
19694,213
19704,371
19713,717
19723,221
19732,798
19742,750
19752,515
19762,323
19772,288
19782,410
19792,297
19802,177
19812,056
19822,019
19831,824
19841,848
19851,800
19861,506
19871,515
19881,450
19891,509
19901,424
19911,305
19921,196
19931,131
19941,033
19951,011
1996838
1997829
1998827
1999770
2000752
2001729
2002723
2003692
2004635
2005619
2006595
2007538
2008512
2009446
2010440
2011347
2012388
2013389
2014376
2015331
2016357
2017321
2018314
2019319
2020287
2021282
2022260
2023254
2024265
2025246

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 118 years between 1898–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Jon Peters, b. 1945David Gilmour, b. 1946Jon Polito, b. 1950Jon Gries, b. 1957Jon Fosse, b. 1959Jon Landau, b. 1960Jon Favreau, b. 1966Jon Seda, b. 1970Jon Dahl Tomasson, b. 1976Jon Jones, b. 1987
  • Jon Petersb. 1945USAmerican film producer
  • David Gilmourb. 1946GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)
  • Jon Politob. 1950USAmerican actor (1950–2016)
  • Jon Griesb. 1957USAmerican actor, writer, director
  • Jon Fosseb. 1959NONorwegian writer, theater writer and translator
  • Jon Landaub. 1960USAmerican film producer (1960–2024)
  • Jon Favreaub. 1966USAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
  • Jon Sedab. 1970USAmerican actor
  • Jon Dahl Tomassonb. 1976DKDanish footballer and manager
  • Jon Jonesb. 1987USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 101 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Jon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020160K#347
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38K#96
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23K#320
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—22K#141
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202515K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.8K#516
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—4.5K#82
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20203.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.6K#5,113
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.5K#196
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,620

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jon?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Jon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Jon have the most bearers?
Jon is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Jon compared with other names?
In Argentina, Jon is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Jon a male or female name?
Jon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jon mean?
Recorded meaning: Hebrew; "God shall add".
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jon” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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