Boy
Jon
Jon means "God has given" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. Since 1900, roughly 167,137 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
HebrewDiminutive of Jonathan
HebrewGod has given
Also spelled: John
Births by decade
1900s
5
1910s
191
1920s
563
1930s
6,436
1940s
19,273
1950s
29,133
1960s
45,172
1970s
28,909
1980s
17,858
1990s
10,401
2000s
6,260
2010s
2,936
Peaked in the 1960s · 167,137 total U.S. births since 1900