Jon

Where Jon comes from

The dictionaries list Jon as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, variant of John — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,121 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.