Jon
A Hebrew name at root, meaning "god has given," worn in English and Scandinavian countries. In Poland it barely registers: only about 109 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Jon Pronunciation
Jon is pronounced YON (/jɔn/).
What Jon means
Where Jon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jon comes from Hebrew, from the name Yochanan, which meant "god has given." The Greek and Latin forms turned it into Johannes, and English clipped that down to John. Jon is the short spelling, three letters, no h. The meaning stayed attached across every trimming: a child given as a gift.
In Scandinavia the name took a separate road. There Jon stands as a native form of Johannes, common in Norway, Sweden, and Iceland, where an Icelander might still be Jón. English speakers borrowed it back as a plain alternative to John, and the two spellings now sit side by side on the same page.
The Polish reading is dar od boga.
Picture a name-day list at the urząd, where Jon appears next to its longer cousins as a small, foreign guest. It carries no diminutives of its own and asks for none. A parent who writes Jon on the birth form chooses the bare version on purpose. What the form records is old: a Hebrew sentence about giving, folded into three letters.
How many people are named Jon
1 in 195837 men in Poland is named Jon. 109 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3264 among male names.
Jon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Jon as a middle name
Jon is a first name for 109 men in Poland and a middle name for another 71, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 856th, between Eustachiusz (71) and Maxime (71).