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John
Pronounced /d͡ʒɑn/
Rank in 2024
#21
Born in 2024
8,047
Peak year
1947 · #3
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,649)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 8,047 boys were named John, about 1 in every 213.
- It peaked in 1947 with 88,321 babies, ranked #3.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,174,470 boys have been named John since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named John per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 54.4Greatest1901–27
- 47.1Silent1928–45
- 40.6Boomers1946–64
- 27.8Gen X1965–80
- 15.2Millennials1981–96
- 8.2Gen Z1997–12
- 5.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 909,254 babies, 54.39 per 1,000. Silent: 973,818 babies, 47.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,525,130 babies, 40.62 per 1,000. Gen X: 755,673 babies, 27.77 per 1,000. Millennials: 463,649 babies, 15.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 256,732 babies, 8.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 109,773 babies, 5.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English John, Johan, Johannes, from Anglo-Norman Jehan, Johan, and also Old English Iohannes, both from Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān), perhaps contracted from a former יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān, “God is gracious”). Doublet of Jack, Jon, Johan, Johann, Johannes, Jean, Sean, Shane, Shaun, Ian, Ivan, Evan, Juan, Giovanni, and Yahya.
- A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /d͡ʒɑn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for John, CC BY-SA 4.0.