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The first name 
Jhon

Jhon is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Jhon meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jhon is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Jhon. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jhon is #2,951 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jhon.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jhon

Jhon -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Jhon. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 678 Americans who bear this name. And these 678 men and boys named Jhon live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Jhon lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Jhon and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Jhon relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 37,658 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Jhon.

Jhon has 4 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.

With four letters, the name Jhon is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.

Other names with 
J, h, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Jhon – J, h, o and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as John or Jonh.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jhon

If your name is Jhon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Jhon

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jhon, you can simply say:

Joker

Hat

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Jhon is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jhon in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jhon

Jhon

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jhon

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jhon is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
H
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Jhon

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
H
O
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jhon sounds like this: