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Meaning of the nameJon

Jon is a spelling of the name John, which means “Yahweh is gracious”.

Meaning

“Yahweh is gracious”

Meaning of the name John, of which Jon is a spelling.

Source: Behind the Name: John

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People (2022)
1,746
Rank in Brazil
#5,620
Median age
24 years
2010 Census
2,559
people

Jon in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Jon, 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 (586 people).

0 women 1,734 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 Jon is most common

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

  1. Ceará 0.001%
  2. Pernambuco 0.001%
  3. Bahia 0.001%
  4. Minas Gerais 0.001%
  5. Rio de Janeiro 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo2250.001%
Minas Gerais1590.001%
Bahia1330.001%
Ceará1220.001%
Rio de Janeiro1080.001%
Pernambuco1040.001%
Rio Grande do Sul930.001%
Pará850.001%
Goiás760.001%
Santa Catarina750.001%
Amazonas730.002%
Paraná720.001%
Paraíba520.001%
Maranhão480.001%
Alagoas450.001%
Espírito Santo430.001%
Sergipe300.001%
Mato Grosso290.001%
Distrito Federal290.001%
Rio Grande do Norte280.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul230.001%
Rondônia190.001%
Acre170.002%
Amapá160.002%
Piauí150.001%

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

The spelling Jon

Behind the Name gives English Jon as a short form of Jonathan or, sometimes, a variant of John; the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Jon among the spelling variants of Jhon.

About the name John

Wiktionary records John in Portuguese as an unadapted borrowing from English, a variant of João, and describes Jhon as an altered spelling of John, popular in Brazil. Behind the Name gives John as the English form of Latin Iohannes and Greek Ioannes, from Hebrew Yoḥanan, which combines yo, a reference to the Hebrew God, with ḥanan, 'to be gracious'; in the New Testament, it is the name of John the Baptist and of the apostle John. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 26,327 people named John, with a median age of 26. The same site lists Jon among the English variants of John and Jhon as a Latin American Spanish form.

Other spellings of John

SpellingPeople (2022)
Jhon29,431
John26,327
Jon1,746

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: John · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: John · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  3. Wiktionary: Jhon · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Jhon · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  5. Behind the Name: Jon · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Jon

What does the name Jon mean?

Jon means “Yahweh is gracious”, according to Behind the Name. This is the meaning of the name John, of which Jon is a spelling.

How many people are named Jon in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,746 people with the first name Jon, which ranks it number 5,620 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Jon is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 1,734 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Jon?

Jon is a name of English and Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Jon most common?

Proportionally, in Ceará: 0.001% of the state's population is named Jon (122 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Jon?

Jhon and John. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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