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Jonn

Boys' name

Yahweh is gracious

Jonn has been given to 537 babies in the U.S. since 1937. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Jonn, 2016

1 in 734,000

Jonn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jonn: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious

Hebrew

What Jonn means

Jonn means “Yahweh is gracious”, associated with Yōḥānān.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonn is used in Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jon and Johannes.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Jonn is pronounced /jɔnː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 537 boys were recorded with the name Jonn between 1937 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,094 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jonn?

Jonn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonn was born before 1972 — so the typical Jonn is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
487
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Jonn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (19)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,094
1970

Spellings of Jonn

Jonn is not the most common spelling — John is, with 61.5% against Jonn's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jonn around the world

Where Jonn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2020–2020
    #5,587
    in 2020
  • Norway
    1880–1975
    #638
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Jonn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,094
1970
Peak year
1970
19 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
537
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jonn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jonn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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