Meaning not yet researched.
Jon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 246 in 2025. Its best rank was #65 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #65 in 1968; #951 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#951 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #65.
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Jon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 246 boys in 2025. Peak: #65 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 4,911 (1964).
In 2025, 246 US boys were named Jon, making it the 951st most common boys’ name of the year, down 58 places from #893 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 265 boys named Jon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #65, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,911, in 1964. For comparison, it was #737 in 2015 and #138 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jon in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 169,391 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 45,167 babies named Jon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,905 US boys were named Jon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 357. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,943 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jon ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #270 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to John, Johnny, Jonnie and Jonny.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12 | #270 | #351 |
| Alabama | 10 | #500 | #428 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #570 | #570 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #595 | #376 |
| Ohio | 16 | #607 | #500 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #633 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #664 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #734 | #872 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #748 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #753 | #674 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #759 | #511 |
| Maryland | 5 | #858 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #926 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #933 | #707 |
| Texas | 26 | #943 | #702 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #971 | #681 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,018 | #763 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,023 | #842 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,109 | #915 |
| New York | 10 | #1,167 | #733 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,186 | #845 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,327 | #732 |
| California | 13 | #1,394 | #756 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 246 | #951 |
| 2024 | — | — | 265 | #893 |
| 2023 | — | — | 254 | #912 |
| 2022 | — | — | 260 | #898 |
| 2021 | — | — | 282 | #843 |
| 2020 | — | — | 287 | #810 |
| 2019 | — | — | 319 | #750 |
| 2018 | — | — | 314 | #754 |
| 2017 | — | — | 321 | #743 |
| 2016 | — | — | 357 | #692 |
| 2015 | — | — | 331 | #737 |
| 2014 | — | — | 376 | #677 |
| 2013 | — | — | 389 | #635 |
| 2012 | — | — | 388 | #625 |
| 2011 | — | — | 347 | #679 |
| 2010 | — | — | 440 | #576 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,614 | 446 | #587 |
| 2008 | — | — | 512 | #526 |
| 2007 | — | — | 538 | #492 |
| 2006 | — | — | 595 | #454 |
| 2005 | — | — | 619 | #430 |
| 2004 | — | — | 635 | #409 |
| 2003 | — | — | 692 | #375 |
| 2002 | — | — | 723 | #365 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,666 | 729 | #366 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,259 | 752 | #354 |
| 1999 | — | — | 770 | #346 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,169 | 827 | #329 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,011 | 829 | #319 |
| 1996 | — | — | 838 | #315 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,035 | 1,011 | #276 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,033 | #271 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,131 | #254 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,241 | 1,196 | #241 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,305 | #227 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,151 | 1,424 | #216 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,451 | 1,509 | #192 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,442 | 1,450 | #189 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,010 | 1,515 | #181 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,825 | 1,506 | #177 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,534 | 1,800 | #151 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,913 | 1,848 | #147 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,735 | 1,824 | #148 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,083 | 2,019 | #141 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,787 | 2,056 | #132 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,679 | 2,177 | #127 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,306 | 2,297 | #118 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,145 | 2,410 | #108 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,306 | 2,288 | #117 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,447 | 2,323 | #111 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,091 | 2,515 | #102 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,248 | 2,750 | #94 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,538 | 2,798 | #94 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,848 | 3,221 | #89 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,566 | 3,717 | #78 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,975 | 4,371 | #68 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,318 | 4,213 | #68 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,383 | 4,209 | #65 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,021 | 4,160 | #71 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,994 | 4,239 | #76 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,084 | 4,601 | #78 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,218 | 4,911 | #79 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,389 | 4,750 | #84 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,630 | 4,785 | #84 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,385 | 4,608 | #93 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,331 | 4,403 | #97 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,212 | 3,976 | #105 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,801 | 3,441 | #117 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,565 | 3,467 | #110 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,666 | 3,078 | #116 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,505 | 3,056 | #115 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,335 | 3,161 | #111 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,556 | 2,714 | #120 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,295 | 2,151 | #135 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,601 | 1,961 | #138 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,388 | 1,945 | #138 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,673 | 1,884 | #144 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,914 | 2,214 | #128 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,881 | 2,307 | #123 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,636 | 2,168 | #117 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,910 | 2,043 | #112 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,392 | 1,812 | #122 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,862 | 1,752 | #127 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,576 | 1,763 | #125 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,629 | 1,545 | #128 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,358 | 1,545 | #123 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,076 | 1,451 | #121 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,507 | 1,408 | #126 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,614 | 1,030 | #150 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,247 | 816 | #168 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,040 | 537 | #223 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,617 | 471 | #244 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,774 | 317 | #300 |
| 1932 | — | — | 164 | #441 |
| 1931 | — | — | 84 | #653 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,849 | 86 | #673 |
| 1929 | — | — | 53 | #928 |
| 1928 | — | — | 67 | #801 |
| 1927 | — | — | 65 | #833 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,566 | 55 | #907 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,036 | 50 | #964 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,748 | 55 | #949 |
| 1923 | — | — | 46 | #1,052 |
| 1922 | — | — | 58 | #919 |
| 1921 | — | — | 41 | #1,114 |
| 1920 | — | — | 50 | #979 |
| 1919 | — | — | 34 | #1,219 |
| 1918 | — | — | 30 | #1,304 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,416 |
| 1916 | — | — | 20 | #1,623 |
| 1915 | — | — | 31 | #1,171 |
| 1914 | — | — | 17 | #1,524 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,742 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,967 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,235 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,508 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,581 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,219 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).