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Meaning of the nameJhone

Jhone is a male Brazilian name of uncertain origin, also written Jone, that appears mostly in people born from the 1980s onward.

Meaning

The meaning of Jhone is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
6,073
Rank in Brazil
#2,395
Median age
28 years
2010 Census
7,123
people

Jhone in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Jhone, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (2,346 people).

58 women 6,015 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Jhone is most common

States with the highest share of people named Jhone in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Rondônia 0.009%
  2. Pará 0.009%
  3. Amazonas 0.008%
  4. Maranhão 0.007%
  5. Mato Grosso 0.006%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo7400.002%
Pará7010.009%
Minas Gerais6290.003%
Maranhão4750.007%
Bahia4110.003%
Goiás3690.005%
Amazonas3130.008%
Paraná2830.003%
Rio de Janeiro2500.002%
Mato Grosso2200.006%
Ceará2180.003%
Pernambuco1890.002%
Espírito Santo1580.004%
Rondônia1460.009%
Mato Grosso do Sul1110.004%
Piauí1080.003%
Alagoas1000.003%
Santa Catarina990.001%
Tocantins990.007%
Sergipe870.004%
Distrito Federal770.003%
Roraima700.011%
Amapá550.008%
Paraíba540.001%
Rio Grande do Norte470.001%
Acre400.005%
Rio Grande do Sul240.000%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Jhone

Jhone and Jone are two spellings of a male name of uncertain origin; the H after the J does not change the pronunciation. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records Jone among the spelling variants of Jhony, a group that also includes Johnny, Jhonny and Joni. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 6,073 people named Jhone and 3,753 named Jone. Both spellings are almost always male, and Jhone is the most common in the group.

Spelling with jh at the start, a pattern the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil also records in Jhon and Jhony; proportionally, it is most common in Rondônia.

Other spellings of Jhone

SpellingPeople (2022)
Jhone6,073
Jone3,753

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Jhony · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Jhon · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Jhone

What does the name Jhone mean?

The meaning of Jhone is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Jhone in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 6,073 people with the first name Jhone, which ranks it number 2,395 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Jhone a boy's or a girl's name?

Jhone is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 58 women and 6,015 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Jhone most common?

Proportionally, in Rondônia: 0.009% of the state's population is named Jhone (146 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Jhone?

Jone. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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