Jhon
Jhon was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,462 among boys’ names; 2,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Jhon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jhon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jhon mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Jhon is “a male given name from English, variant of Juan, popular in Colombia and Peru”
Misspelling of English John. Compare Portuguese Jhon.
/ˈʝon/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jhon?
#2,462 among boys’ names, 2025
Jhon rose from #3,627 in 2015 to #2,462 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 32.2 per million.
72 babies in 2024, the peak
Jhon peaked in 2024, when 72 boys were given it, #2,086 among boys’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,462 | 32.2 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,086 | 41.8 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,455 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,478 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,673 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,527 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,022 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,416 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,619 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,687 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,627 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,566 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,615 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,481 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,332 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,759 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,305 | 28.7 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,733 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,267 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,048 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,678 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,171 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,647 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,270 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,321 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,269 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,756 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,674 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,638 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,968 | 23.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,645 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,323 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,229 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,492 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,864 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,399 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,727 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,719 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,594 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,464 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,136 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,394 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,726 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,764 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,959 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,501 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,710 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,983 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,723 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,756 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,031 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,607 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,081 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,285 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,411 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,959 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,178 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,922 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,291 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,177 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,034 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,070 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,768 | 10.3 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,730 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,372 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,476 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,068 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,920 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,321 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,320 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,864 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,924 | 8.3 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,690 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,112 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,938 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,668 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,479 | 14.1 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,363 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,817 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,670 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,395 | 17.1 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,849 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,476 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,995 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,954 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,545 | 17.3 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,606 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,458 | 19.8 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,426 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,614 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,520 | 20.2 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,342 | 25.2 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,345 | 25.2 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,209 | 30.6 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,050 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,411 | 24.6 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,122 | 36.3 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,178 | 33.4 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,424 | 24.8 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,253 | 30.6 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,518 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,344 | 27.4 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,071 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,291 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,571 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,616 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,777 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,949 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,134 | 15.1 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,810 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,925 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,522 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,378 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,963 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,875 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,081 | 51.5 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,576 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,162 | 45.4 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,263 | 40.9 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,079 | 48.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,107 | 46.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,143 | 44.3 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,170 | 43.2 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,015 | 44.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jhon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jhon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 124 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jhon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jhon, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,939 Americans ever recorded as Jhon. The median Jhon alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 6,691 people named Jhon (73 women and girls, 6,618 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,875 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 64 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 203 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 377 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 679 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 516 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jhon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #1,989 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #1,885 | 1.7× |
Where Jhon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jhon is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jhon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,393,642 babies since 1880, Jhon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 8,930 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jhon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jhon and names like it
- Compare Jhon and JohnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJhon peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jhon since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jhon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jhon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.