# Ion (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ion/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 314 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 314 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 126, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 13,044 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,331 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,365 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,234 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,251 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,182 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,296 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6,864 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6,558 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6,775 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,432 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,089 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,042 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,596 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,250 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1,875 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 13 | 1,782 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Ion

- Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (1961-1974)
- Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper
- Ion Nicolaescu, association football player
- Ion Alexe, boxer
- Ion Monea, boxer (1940–2011)
- Ion Gheorghe, association football player
- Ion Popa, Australian rower
- Ion Overman, American actress
- Ion Jardan, football player
- Ion Hanford Perdicaris, American statesman, author, humanitarian and human rights activist (1840–1925)
- Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu, fascist, member of the Legionary movement
- Ion N. Petrovici, German neurologist (1929-2021)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.