Given name & surname

Jony

Jony is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Jony isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Jony through the years

Babies since 1880
275
275 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2009
16 babies
2025
7
#10,159 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+4%
Steady
02.557.510198020002025Highest share 20094.1
Jony in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1962–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,159 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 982 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.

Jony’s family of names

In Manx usage, Jony has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean.

Walk Jony’s family in the name graph

JonyJónýJeanJonnyJonty

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Jony

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Jony, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Josuel

13Very rare

>99% boys

Modern

Josuhe

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Yoni

“dove” · “God has given”

24RareRising

>99% boys

Modern

Jaison

20RareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Jayvier

13Very rareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Geovani

“God is gracious”

23RareEasing

>99% boys

Hebrew · Modern

Jezreel

“The Lord provides”

20RareEasing

76% boys · 24% girls

Modern

Jaborie

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Jony’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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