Jon
Jon is a boy's name that peaked in 1964, when it was the 79th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 951st. About 131,000 Jons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jon boys named Jon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 169,391
- Estimated living today
- 131,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 79th
- Rank in 2025
- 951st
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 1,249 / 168,142
How old the living Jons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 169,391 babies given the name since 1898, about 131,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 6,100 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jons
- Jon Voight (born 1938)American actor
- Jon Fosse (born 1959)Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator
- Jon Bon Jovi (born 1962)American musician
- Jon Stewart (born 1962)American comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host
- Jon Favreau (born 1966)American actor and filmmaker
- Jon Lord (1941–2012)English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player
- Jon Bernthal (born 1976)American actor
- Jon Andoni Goikoetxea (born 1965)Spanish association football player
People named Jon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jon is most concentrated in Minnesota (2.4×), Hawaii (2.4×), North Dakota (2.2×), Iowa (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Jon peaked:
Jon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Jon | 15,564 | 26th |
| Spain boys | Jon | 5,383 | 89th |
| England and Wales boys | Jon | 1,423 | 239th |
| Switzerland boys | Jon | 1,173 | 100th |
| France boys | Jon | 940 | 1,258th |
| Scotland boys | Jon | 869 | 100th |
| Belgium boys | Jon | 79 | 945th |
| Ireland boys | Jon | 69 | 236th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jon | 24 | 210th |
| Poland boys | Jon | 2 birth registrations | 745th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jon: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jon | 1,034 | 0.083% | 80th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jon | 116 | 0.027% | 186th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jon | 12 | 0.018% | 123rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Jon | 11 | 0.296% | 5th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jon is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.15% of children were given it – 56 of them.
Jon: rank by region
In 2024, Jon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jon | 882 | 5 |
In 2023, Jon was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| País Vasco | Jon | 7 | 92 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jon by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 22 | 422nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jon +1 spelling | 771 | 967 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 22,618 men called Jon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Jon | 5,744 | 16.028 | 2 |
| Bizkaia | Jon | 8,883 | 15.724 | 1 |
| Araba/Álava | Jon | 1,751 | 10.397 | 10 |
| Navarra | Jon | 1,780 | 5.253 | 40 |
| Cantabria | Jon | 266 | 0.925 | 146 |
| Rioja, La | Jon | 147 | 0.912 | 151 |
Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.