Jones

What Jones means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jones yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,531 in 2015 to #810 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jones?

US: Rising: up from #1531 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 306 boys got the name (#810 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,582 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.86 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.46 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.4 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jones is #810 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.2% of US babies named Jones were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jonas476 US · 49 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jones

Boys

• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

For a sister

• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Wren#231Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025
• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jones’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.