Jon
Jon was given to 246 boys in 2025, #951 among boys’ names; 169,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 130,000 Americans named Jon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 44 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jon is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jon?
#951 among boys’ names, 2025
Jon fell from #737 in 2015 to #951 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.17 to 0.14 per 1,000.
4,941 babies in 1964, the peak
Jon peaked in 1964, when 4,941 babies were given it (4,911 boys, #79 among boys’ names). The 246 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 246 | #951 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 265 | #893 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 254 | #912 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 260 | #898 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 282 | #843 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 287 | #810 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 319 | #750 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 314 | #754 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 321 | #743 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 357 | #692 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 331 | #737 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 376 | #677 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 389 | #635 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 388 | #625 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 347 | #679 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 440 | #576 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 446 | #587 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 512 | #526 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 538 | #492 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 595 | #454 | 0.29 |
| 2005 | 619 | #430 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 635 | #409 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 692 | #375 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 723 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 729 | #366 | 0.38 |
| 2000 | 752 | #354 | 0.38 |
| 1999 | 770 | #346 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 827 | #329 | 0.43 |
| 1997 | 829 | #319 | 0.44 |
| 1996 | 838 | #315 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 1,011 | #276 | 0.53 |
| 1994 | 1,033 | #271 | 0.53 |
| 1993 | 1,131 | #254 | 0.58 |
| 1992 | 1,196 | #241 | 0.60 |
| 1991 | 1,305 | #227 | 0.65 |
| 1990 | 1,424 | #216 | 0.69 |
| 1989 | 1,509 | #192 | 0.75 |
| 1988 | 1,450 | #189 | 0.76 |
| 1987 | 1,515 | #181 | 0.81 |
| 1986 | 1,506 | #177 | 0.82 |
| 1985 | 1,800 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 1,848 | #147 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 1,824 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 2,019 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1981 | 2,056 | #132 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,177 | #127 | 1.2 |
| 1979 | 2,297 | #118 | 1.3 |
| 1978 | 2,410 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 2,288 | #117 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 2,323 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 2,515 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 2,750 | #94 | 1.7 |
| 1973 | 2,798 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 1972 | 3,221 | #89 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 3,717 | #78 | 2.1 |
| 1970 | 4,371 | #68 | 2.4 |
| 1969 | 4,213 | #68 | 2.4 |
| 1968 | 4,209 | #65 | 2.4 |
| 1967 | 4,160 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1966 | 4,239 | #76 | 2.4 |
| 1965 | 4,601 | #78 | 2.5 |
| 1964 | 4,911 | #79 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 4,750 | #84 | 2.3 |
| 1962 | 4,785 | #84 | 2.3 |
| 1961 | 4,608 | #93 | 2.2 |
| 1960 | 4,403 | #97 | 2.1 |
| 1959 | 3,976 | #105 | 1.9 |
| 1958 | 3,441 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1957 | 3,467 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1956 | 3,078 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 1955 | 3,056 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 3,161 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1953 | 2,714 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 2,151 | #135 | 1.1 |
| 1951 | 1,961 | #138 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1,945 | #138 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 1,884 | #144 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 2,214 | #128 | 1.3 |
| 1947 | 2,307 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1946 | 2,168 | #117 | 1.3 |
| 1945 | 2,043 | #112 | 1.5 |
| 1944 | 1,812 | #122 | 1.3 |
| 1943 | 1,752 | #127 | 1.2 |
| 1942 | 1,763 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 1941 | 1,545 | #128 | 1.3 |
| 1940 | 1,545 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1939 | 1,451 | #121 | 1.3 |
| 1938 | 1,408 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1937 | 1,030 | #150 | 1.0 |
| 1936 | 816 | #168 | 0.79 |
| 1935 | 537 | #223 | 0.52 |
| 1934 | 471 | #244 | 0.46 |
| 1933 | 317 | #300 | 0.32 |
| 1932 | 164 | #441 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 84 | #653 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 86 | #673 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 53 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 67 | #801 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 65 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 55 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 50 | #964 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 55 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 58 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 50 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,966 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,234 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jon has been given almost only to boys: 1,249 girls in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jon, and how old are they?
130,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 169,391 Americans ever recorded as Jon. The median Jon alive today is 57 years old; half are between 44 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 161,311 people named Jon (1,044 women and girls, 160,267 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 138,263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jon rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5,060 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,970 |
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 Jon born?
The states with the most babies named Jon are California, Texas and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18,138 | #1,394 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 10,278 | #943 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 9,509 | #607 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9,423 | #1,167 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8,313 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8,296 | #1,186 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 7,479 | #753 | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6,966 | #1,327 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 6,160 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Indiana | 6,118 | #1,018 | 1.4× |
Where Jon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jon is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Jon 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, Jon is the second most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 246 of their 8,930 babies (2.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Jon
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 Jon and names like it
- Compare Jon and JohnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJon peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jon since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Jon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.