Name Trends

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How popular is “Jon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 31 0.000016917 31 -100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 -100%
1917 25 0.000012458 25 -100%
1918 30 0.000013818 30 -100%
1919 34 0.000016112 34 -100%
1920 50 0.000022098 50 -100%
1921 41 0.000017563 41 -100%
1922 58 0.000025337 58 -100%
1923 46 0.000019978 46 -100%
1924 61 0.000025613 6 55 -80%
1925 61 0.000026143 11 50 -64%
1926 61 0.000026569 6 55 -80%
1927 65 0.000028025 65 -100%
1928 67 0.000029634 67 -100%
1929 53 0.000024177 53 -100%
1930 93 0.00004183 7 86 -85%
1931 84 0.000039917 84 -100%
1932 164 0.000077678 164 -100%
1933 327 0.000163545 10 317 -94%
1934 476 0.000229197 5 471 -98%
1935 546 0.000261257 9 537 -97%
1936 824 0.000396616 8 816 -98%
1937 1037 0.000486701 7 1030 -99%
1938 1420 0.000641786 12 1408 -98%
1939 1466 0.000665323 16 1450 -98%
1940 1559 0.000677036 13 1546 -98%
1941 1569 0.000643976 24 1545 -97%
1942 1791 0.000655607 28 1763 -97%
1943 1774 0.000628508 22 1752 -98%
1944 1846 0.000686225 34 1812 -96%
1945 2063 0.000777637 20 2043 -98%
1946 2198 0.000687884 30 2168 -97%
1947 2334 0.000647915 27 2307 -98%
1948 2239 0.000648512 25 2214 -98%
1949 1899 0.000544942 15 1884 -98%
1950 1963 0.00056032 18 1945 -98%
1951 1971 0.000535054 10 1961 -99%
1952 2172 0.000571879 21 2151 -98%
1953 2732 0.000708939 18 2714 -99%
1954 3183 0.000799606 22 3161 -99%
1955 3076 0.000766112 20 3056 -99%
1956 3097 0.000751145 19 3078 -99%
1957 3479 0.000827911 12 3467 -99%
1958 3478 0.000841335 37 3441 -98%
1959 4002 0.000962484 27 3975 -99%
1960 4429 0.001066249 26 4403 -99%
1961 4634 0.001118702 26 4608 -99%
1962 4804 0.001190473 22 4782 -99%
1963 4777 0.001206862 26 4751 -99%
1964 4942 0.00127122 30 4912 -99%
1965 4631 0.001277359 32 4599 -99%
1966 4274 0.001229696 34 4240 -98%
1967 4195 0.001235678 34 4161 -98%
1968 4236 0.001253843 27 4209 -99%
1969 4245 0.001221469 31 4214 -99%
1970 4393 0.001218074 23 4370 -99%
1971 3735 0.001088174 18 3717 -99%
1972 3245 0.001032455 24 3221 -99%
1973 2817 0.000933744 18 2799 -99%
1974 2771 0.000911513 21 2750 -98%
1975 2539 0.000840897 23 2516 -98%
1976 2344 0.000772501 20 2324 -98%
1977 2304 0.000725328 16 2288 -99%
1978 2435 0.000767202 25 2410 -98%
1979 2315 0.000695822 17 2298 -99%
1980 2189 0.000635505 12 2177 -99%
1981 2079 0.000600976 21 2058 -98%
1982 2038 0.000580964 19 2019 -98%
1983 1845 0.000532723 21 1824 -98%
1984 1868 0.000535435 20 1848 -98%
1985 1817 0.00050909 17 1800 -98%
1986 1522 0.000427879 16 1506 -98%
1987 1525 0.000422952 10 1515 -99%
1988 1462 0.000395665 12 1450 -98%
1989 1515 0.000394075 6 1509 -99%
1990 1434 0.00036281 10 1424 -99%
1991 1305 0.000335022 1305 -100%
1992 1201 0.000312657 5 1196 -99%
1993 1131 0.000299978 1131 -100%
1994 1033 0.000277863 1033 -100%
1995 1018 0.000277978 7 1011 -99%
1996 838 0.000229766 838 -100%
1997 840 0.000231676 11 829 -97%
1998 833 0.000226469 6 827 -99%
1999 770 0.000208454 770 -100%
2000 764 0.000202122 12 752 -97%
2001 736 0.000196613 7 729 -98%
2002 723 0.000193404 723 -100%
2003 692 0.000181994 692 -100%
2004 635 0.00016619 635 -100%
2005 619 0.000160995 619 -100%
2006 595 0.000150397 595 -100%
2007 538 0.000134578 538 -100%
2008 512 0.000130258 512 -100%
2009 451 0.000118057 5 446 -98%
2010 440 0.000119056 440 -100%
2011 347 0.000094866 347 -100%
2012 388 0.000106087 388 -100%
2013 388 0.000106428 388 -100%
2014 376 0.000101447 376 -100%
2015 331 0.000089437 331 -100%
2016 357 0.00009731 357 -100%
2017 321 0.00008976 321 -100%
2018 313 0.000089024 313 -100%
2019 318 0.000091618 318 -100%
2020 286 0.000085614 286 -100%
2021 281 0.000082941 281 -100%
2022 260 0.000076852 260 -100%
2023 254 0.000076709 254 -100%
2024 265 0.000079615 265 -100%

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