Given name · also Latin
Gjon
Gjon is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Albanian.
Original LatinIohannes
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Gjon comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Gjon developed from Ἰωάννης.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gjon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 62
- 62 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 266 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gjon’s family of names
Gjon developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰωάννης. Gjon has a conventional equivalent in the English form John. Gjon has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Juan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gjon has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Gjon comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gjon
- Gjon's TearsSwiss singerborn 1998
- Gjon BuzukuAlbanian translator1499–1577
- Gjon Kastrioti IIAlbanian prince1456–1514
- Gjon MiliAmerican photographer born in Albania (1904-1984)
- Gjon DelhusaHungarian composerborn 1953
- Gjon GazuliAlbanian friar, scholar and diplomat1400–1465
- Gjon MarkagjoniAlbanian clan chieftain and Axis collaborator (1888–1966)1886–1966
- Gjon MuzakaAlbanian noble1450
- John ZenevisiRuler of Epirus
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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