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The first name 
Jon

Jon is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Jon is a common name for boys!

The name Jon isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jon ranks 683. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Jon. In the entire USA, approximately 164,299 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jon. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.

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

What does the name 
Jon mean?

The name Jon can be a variant of John as well as a short form of Jonathan. Both names are related, the former going back to the Hebrew Yochanan and meaning ‘Yahweh is gracious’, the latter to Yonatan and meaning ‘Yahweh has given’.

Jon is a common... spelling of John in Scandinavian countries and is a variant of Jan, that also goes back to the Hebrew Yochanan.

Jon -
classic and modern at the same time

Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Jon reached its highest rank ever in the year 1968 at #65. In other words: 4,237 newborn boys were named Jon that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Jon is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Jon will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Jon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Jon - a popular player in the midfield

In 2022, Jon ranked 836 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 258 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Jon will remain a universally popular name.

Jon -
well known in all states of the USA, most popular in Minnesota

There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jon is one of them. However, Jon is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Minnesota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 7,462 men called Jon who live here are 0,245% of all male residents and push their name up to #93 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Minnesota. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 164,299 people with the name Jon. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jon on position 200 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Jon has 3 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 only three letters, the name Jon is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Jon – J, o and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Jno.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jon

If your name is Jon 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 Jon

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

Joker

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Jon 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 Jon in Braille?

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

Jon

Jon

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

J
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Jon

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
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. Jon sounds like this: