Given name & surname · also Ancient Greek
Jonn
“Yahweh is gracious”
Jonn is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål and Faroese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jonn goes back to Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān), meaning “Yahweh is gracious.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Jonn comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jonn is a short form of Johannes. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jonn developed from Ἰωάννης.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1937. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jonn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 537
- 537 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 19 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 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,216 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.
Jonn’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jonn is a short form of Johannes. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jonn developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰωάννης. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jonn has a related form in John.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jonn
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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