Jon

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Hebrew; "God shall add"

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 18as Jan(measured from records)
  • RORomania1 in 48as Ioan
  • IEIreland≈1 in 53as John

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,125,123 named John, 2020

#6 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
731 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia, as Jan

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JohnLatin(measured from records)
ЯнCyrillic(measured from records)
יונהHebrew(measured from records)
ዮሐንስEthiopic(measured from records)
요안Hangul(measured from records)
ΙωαννGreek(measured from records)
เซบาสเตียนThai(measured from records)
ჯონიGeorgian(measured from records)
ՅանArmenian(measured from records)
JoࣩhnArabic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 2 more, Jan in CZ Czechia, Ioan in RO Romania and Ион in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Hebrew; "God shall add". Nickname of John.

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#33,125,123as John1 in 1063.1MJohn731
NG Nigeria#11≈1,200,000 est.≈1 in 177—John190
GB United Kingdom#1≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 591.1KJohn496
PH Philippines#3≈750,000 est.≈1 in 145listedJohn261
CZ Czechia#1587,876as Jan1 in 18588KJan233
RO Romania#151447,697as Ioan1 in 48448KIoan96
MD Moldova#332100,110as Ion1 in 34100KИон50
IE Ireland#1≈98,000 est.≈1 in 53—John245

3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jon is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, France

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Jón, Joñ, Jön, J'On, Jőn

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Jọn, Jōṇ, Jŏn, Jōn, Jón

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Jón

  • Hungarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Jón, Jön, Jõń

  • a separate given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Jón, Jön, Jôn, Jöñ, Jòn

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Jón

85 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Simplified spelling of John or short form of Jonathan.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Jon är en hopdragen form av → Johan. Namnet har varit vanligt i Sverige från medeltiden och framåt, men från 1800-talet har → John blivit vanligare. Jon uttalas i svenskan oftast med lång vokal, medan John sägs med kort vokal. I den rikssvenska almanackan 21 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 24 juni.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom., durch Zusammenziehung entstandene niederdeutsche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Many Saints See lan

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • The Lord’s grace.

    as a nameThe African book of names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Jon Peters, b. 1945David Gilmour, b. 1946Jon Polito, b. 1950Jon Gries, b. 1957Jon Fosse, b. 1959Jon Landau, b. 1960Jon Favreau, b. 1966Jon Seda, b. 1970Jon Dahl Tomasson, b. 1976Jon Jones, b. 1987
  • Jon Petersb. 1945USAmerican film producer
  • David Gilmourb. 1946GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)
  • Jon Politob. 1950USAmerican actor (1950–2016)
  • Jon Griesb. 1957USAmerican actor, writer, director
  • Jon Fosseb. 1959NONorwegian writer, theater writer and translator
  • Jon Landaub. 1960USAmerican film producer (1960–2024)
  • Jon Favreaub. 1966USAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
  • Jon Sedab. 1970USAmerican actor
  • Jon Dahl Tomassonb. 1976DKDanish footballer and manager
  • Jon Jonesb. 1987USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Jon,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 107 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Jon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020160K#347
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#347
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025246—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—5#3,926

Reference works 10

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Jon a male or female name?
Jon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Jon?
In the etymology graph, John, Ivan and Jack are forms of the same name in other languages; Johnny, Hans and Johnnie are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Jonathan and Johnathon.
Where does the name Jon come from?
Hebrew; "God shall add". Nickname of John. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
In which country does Jon have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Jon most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Jon itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 18 people named Jan.
What does the name Jon mean?
Recorded meaning: Hebrew; "God shall add".
How common is the name Jon?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,125,123 people named John in 2020, about 1 in 106 residents.
How common is Jon compared with other names?
In the United States, Jon is the 3rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Jon?
A machine transcription gives /dʒɑn/ (IPA) for English.

What do you want to know about Jon?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jon

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jon” — the 3rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Jon parses inside a full name →