Jon Forename
1,731st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 576,594 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Norway
Jon Forename Definition:
A rare variant of John, though in some instances it appears to be a contraction of Jolyon. The name of perhaps the most attractive character in the whole of Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga.
Jon Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 326,784 | 1:1,109 | 244 |
| England | 100% | 48,392 | 1:1,149 | 239 |
| Spain | 100% | 27,899 | 1:1,668 | 238 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 25,518 | 1:10,109 | 1,398 |
| Norway | 100% | 21,921 | 1:234 | 40 |
| Canada | 100% | 17,867 | 1:1,854 | 394 |
| Australia | - | 14,323 | 1:954 | 206 |
| Philippines | 99% | 11,588 | 1:9,148 | 1,264 |
| India | 100% | 10,893 | 1:111,528 | 13,209 |
| Myanmar | - | 9,713 | 1:5,348 | 223 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,878 | 1:1,677 | 276 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 5,041 | 1:31,633 | 3,156 |
| New Zealand | - | 3,727 | 1:1,217 | 287 |
| Denmark | - | 3,369 | 1:1,677 | 294 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,423 | 1:73,283 | 4,657 |
| Ghana | - | 2,247 | 1:12,010 | 1,092 |
| Poland | 97% | 2,215 | 1:17,168 | 652 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 2,196 | 1:44,426 | 4,461 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,076 | 1:8,142 | 1,074 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,983 | 1:19,066 | 1,940 |
| Egypt | 100% | 1,952 | 1:47,080 | 2,742 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1,773 | 1:4,030 | 524 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,763 | 1:3,035 | 364 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,748 | 1:1,770 | 342 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,280 | 1:54,739 | 5,695 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1,222 | 1:44,626 | 4,776 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,166 | 1:26,426 | 3,414 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1,163 | 1:41,082 | 2,047 |
| Russia | 98% | 1,162 | 1:124,125 | 2,209 |
| Germany | 100% | 969 | 1:99,771 | 2,118 |
| Malaysia | 83% | 955 | 1:31,885 | 2,905 |
| France | 100% | 799 | 1:83,192 | 2,005 |
| Brazil | 100% | 759 | 1:282,261 | 11,200 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 746 | 1:3,296 | 494 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 728 | 1:11,282 | 1,058 |
| Iceland | - | 605 | 1:605 | 117 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 572 | 1:14,641 | 1,232 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 543 | 1:56,697 | 2,015 |
| China | - | 488 | 1:2,799,295 | 47,630 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 471 | 1:64,123 | 3,441 |
| Ireland | 99% | 463 | 1:10,029 | 711 |
| Japan | 100% | 453 | 1:282,530 | 8,256 |
| Singapore | 100% | 446 | 1:14,097 | 3,102 |
| Finland | 100% | 397 | 1:13,812 | 919 |
| Fiji | - | 345 | 1:2,587 | 730 |
| Northern Ireland | 96% | 340 | 1:5,421 | 592 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 334 | 1:31,231 | 2,500 |
| Portugal | - | 286 | 1:36,402 | 1,414 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Armenia | 100% | 254 | 1:11,491 | 927 |
| Albania | 100% | 228 | 1:13,362 | 1,954 |
| Belgium | 100% | 199 | 1:57,739 | 2,637 |
| Malta | - | 193 | 1:2,225 | 406 |
| Mexico | 100% | 192 | 1:646,586 | 6,441 |
| Cambodia | 60% | 184 | 1:88,442 | 4,154 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 182 | 1:97,510 | 2,992 |
| Hong Kong | - | 178 | 1:43,555 | 2,466 |
| Peru | 99% | 173 | 1:183,766 | 5,012 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 162 | 1:391 | 100 |
| Oman | - | 157 | 1:26,170 | 1,993 |
| Iraq | - | 154 | 1:227,389 | 3,692 |
| Tonga | - | 151 | 1:711 | 162 |
| Papua New Guinea | 90% | 150 | 1:54,349 | 5,252 |
| Malawi | 100% | 148 | 1:115,624 | 6,115 |
| Guam | - | 143 | 1:1,123 | 249 |
| Italy | 99% | 133 | 1:459,113 | 5,032 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 130 | 1:567,905 | 19,370 |
| South Korea | 100% | 127 | 1:43,657 | 3,115 |
| Estonia | 100% | 123 | 1:10,694 | 1,172 |
| Kenya | - | 116 | 1:399,199 | 12,227 |
| Ecuador | - | 114 | 1:155,499 | 3,038 |
| Kuwait | - | 114 | 1:33,204 | 3,097 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 114 | 1:62,737 | 5,556 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 99 | 1:240,098 | 19,609 |
| Greece | 100% | 98 | 1:111,577 | 2,871 |
| Jersey | - | 96 | 1:1,041 | 223 |
| Chile | 96% | 85 | 1:207,144 | 3,757 |
| Guatemala | - | 81 | 1:198,869 | 3,035 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 81 | 1:2,399,478 | 30,527 |
| Belarus | 97% | 79 | 1:120,030 | 1,182 |
| Gibraltar | - | 77 | 1:443 | 90 |
| Argentina | 95% | 70 | 1:611,046 | 4,075 |
| Bermuda | - | 64 | 1:1,013 | 223 |
| Bahamas | - | 62 | 1:6,441 | 914 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Afghanistan | - | 53 | 1:615,538 | 9,347 |
| Botswana | - | 53 | 1:41,216 | 4,268 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 52 | 1:40,207 | 3,071 |
| Georgia | 100% | 49 | 1:76,295 | 3,121 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 49 | 1:27,784 | 3,007 |
| Greenland | - | 48 | 1:1,174 | 255 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 47 | 1:116,444 | 1,215 |
| Panama | 100% | 43 | 1:90,850 | 4,674 |
| Austria | 100% | 42 | 1:202,719 | 3,038 |
| Jamaica | - | 42 | 1:68,648 | 3,437 |
| Angola | - | 36 | 1:749,072 | 2,190 |
| Qatar | 100% | 36 | 1:65,822 | 8,074 |
| Kosovo | - | 34 | 1:54,748 | 3,968 |
| Micronesia | - | 34 | 1:3,132 | 400 |
| Uganda | 100% | 30 | 1:1,365,231 | 20,932 |
| American Samoa | - | 29 | 1:1,926 | 312 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 29 | 1:3,784 | 670 |
| Czechia | 100% | 28 | 1:380,577 | 2,209 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 26 | 1:3,562,427 | 3,420 |
| Gambia | - | 25 | 1:77,064 | 396 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 23 | 1:2,377 | 477 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 19 | 1:3,226 | 656 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 18 | 1:264,886 | 5,347 |
| Israel | 100% | 18 | 1:466,829 | 9,497 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Zambia | - | 18 | 1:880,822 | 15,021 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 16 | 1:297,061 | 236 |
| Laos | - | 16 | 1:411,678 | 310 |
| Libya | - | 16 | 1:388,832 | 1,019 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 16 | 1:376,146 | 7,303 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 16 | 1:29,727 | 585 |
| Barbados | - | 15 | 1:19,319 | 1,454 |
| Faroe Islands | - | 15 | 1:3,275 | 583 |
| Liberia | 100% | 15 | 1:294,137 | 9,351 |
| Zimbabwe | 83% | 15 | 1:1,028,254 | 36,015 |
| Guyana | 100% | 14 | 1:54,519 | 4,997 |
| Romania | - | 13 | 1:1,542,460 | 22,573 |
| Iran | - | 12 | 1:6,541,406 | 22,263 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 12 | 1:47,004 | 1,881 |
| Honduras | 100% | 11 | 1:801,588 | 9,931 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 11 | 1:7,729 | 208 |
| Moldova | - | 11 | 1:323,740 | 2,377 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 11 | 1:3,155 | 669 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 10 | 1:597,328 | 17,002 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 10 | 1:129,778 | 3,502 |
| Ukraine | - | 10 | 1:4,549,991 | 8,360 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 9 | 1:11,044 | 1,733 |
| East Timor | - | 9 | 1:135,375 | 266 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 9 | 1:70,508 | 2,461 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 9 | 1:394,478 | 3,471 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 8 | 1:2,701,313 | 52,296 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 8 | 1:108,884 | 3,058 |
| Hungary | 97% | 8 | 1:1,223,971 | 3,159 |
| Nepal | - | 8 | 1:3,560,919 | 43,416 |
| Tanzania | - | 8 | 1:6,598,540 | 36,161 |
| Turkey | 100% | 8 | 1:9,725,214 | 31,896 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 7 | 1:4,464 | 919 |
| Lebanon | - | 7 | 1:803,939 | 7,854 |
| Macau | - | 7 | 1:86,887 | 752 |
| Syria | - | 7 | 1:2,758,011 | 4,869 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 6 | 1:1,607,157 | 18,833 |
| Ivory Coast | 67% | 6 | 1:3,845,989 | 64,391 |
| Belize | 100% | 5 | 1:70,862 | 4,575 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 5 | 1:704,892 | 5,284 |
| Cuba | - | 4 | 1:2,876,638 | 6,272 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Haiti | - | 4 | 1:2,681,738 | 23,796 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Monaco | 100% | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Tuvalu | - | 4 | 1:2,783 | 28 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Brunei | - | 3 | 1:139,857 | 2,352 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| El Salvador | - | 3 | 1:2,113,929 | 9,538 |
| Lesotho | - | 3 | 1:679,999 | 29,822 |
| Lithuania | - | 3 | 1:983,961 | 3,563 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 3 | 1:2,412,268 | 9,978 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 3 | 1:18,287 | 2,142 |
| Senegal | 100% | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 3 | 1:193,652 | 6,393 |
| Uruguay | - | 3 | 1:1,142,546 | 10,015 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Croatia | - | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Congo | - | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | - | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
The alternate forms: Jón (8,992), Jôn (4) & Jòn (2) are calculated separately.
Jon (370,819) may also be a surname.
Jon Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A rare variant of John, though in some instances it appears to be a contraction of Jolyon. The name of perhaps the most attractive character in the whole of Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Jon Forename Popularity
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