Jon

Where Jon comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jon.

  • Hebrew
Jon through the years
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,121 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Jon Fosse born
    Norwegian writer, playwright, and translator
  3. 1966
    Jon Favreau born
    American actor and filmmaker
  4. 1968
    Peak, #65
    4,209 babies named Jon, its best rank.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #132.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
Namesakes
  • Jon Fosse · Norwegian writer, playwright, and translator, born 1959
  • Jon Favreau · American actor and filmmaker, born 1966
  • Jon Bernthal · American actor, born 1976
  • Jon Andoni Goikoetxea · Spanish association football player, born 1965
  • Jon Hamm · American actor, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.