Jone
Jone was last recorded in 1999, when 6 babies were given it; 711 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jone?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,415, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1954, the peak
Jone peaked in 1954, when 35 girls were given it, #1,749 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #13,415 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,164 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,797 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,086 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,976 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,409 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,234 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,647 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,103 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,531 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #10,429 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,258 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,548 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,487 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,018 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,193 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,380 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,116 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,687 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,796 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,330 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,629 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,446 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,289 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,208 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,749 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,800 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,959 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,902 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,810 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,749 | 17.5 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,283 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,311 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,265 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,957 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,695 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,922 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,942 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,841 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,865 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,917 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,826 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,379 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,717 | 19.2 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,048 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,829 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,611 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,161 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,659 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,533 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 711 Americans recorded as Jone, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jone, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Jone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 63 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,401 people named Jone (1,048 women and girls, 353 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 273,267 babies since 1880, Jone is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 347 babies recorded by SSA was a Jone (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jone
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 Jone and names like it
- Compare Jone and JoanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJone peaked in 1954.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jone since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Jone.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jone alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.