# Jon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jon/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Johannes |
| US babies named this | 169,391 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 168,142 / 1,249 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,423, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 21 | 3,735 |
| 1984 | 20 | 3,913 |
| 1985 | 17 | 4,534 |
| 1986 | 16 | 4,825 |
| 1987 | 10 | 7,010 |
| 1988 | 12 | 6,442 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,451 |
| 1990 | 10 | 8,151 |
| 1992 | 5 | 14,241 |
| 1995 | 7 | 11,035 |
| 1997 | 11 | 8,011 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,169 |
| 2000 | 12 | 8,259 |
| 2001 | 7 | 12,666 |
| 2009 | 5 | 18,614 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 347 | 679 |
| 2012 | 388 | 625 |
| 2013 | 389 | 635 |
| 2014 | 376 | 677 |
| 2015 | 331 | 737 |
| 2016 | 357 | 692 |
| 2017 | 321 | 743 |
| 2018 | 314 | 754 |
| 2019 | 319 | 750 |
| 2020 | 287 | 810 |
| 2021 | 282 | 843 |
| 2022 | 260 | 898 |
| 2023 | 254 | 912 |
| 2024 | 265 | 893 |
| 2025 | 246 | 951 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 878 |
| 2012 | 30 | 962 |
| 2013 | 31 | 931 |
| 2014 | 34 | 866 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,159 |
| 2016 | 27 | 1,050 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,158 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,273 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 14 | 1,798 |

## People named Jon

- Jon Favreau, American actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
- Jon Bernthal, American actor (born 1976)
- Jon Hamm, American actor (born 1971)
- Jon Lovitz, American actor and comedian
- Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager
- Jon Ossoff, American politician (born 1987)
- Jon Jones, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Jon Cryer, American actor
- Jon Landau, American film producer (1960–2024)
- Jon Polito, American actor (1950–2016)
- H. Jon Benjamin, American actor
- Jon Krakauer, American writer and journalist

## 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.