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Jhoan vs Jhon

American parents have registered 2,939 Jhons since 1880, against 657 Jhoans. Jhon is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jhoan against Jhon, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jhoan Jhon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 124 years in which either name was published, Jhon for 123 years and Jhoan for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jhoan Jhon
Total US births 6572,939
Most in one year 7672
Babies in 2025 5155
Estimated living today 6502,100
Median age today 824
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 1,999th boys2,078th boys
Rank in 2025 2,572nd2,451st
First recorded 19961882
Girls / boys 0 / 6570 / 2,939

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jhons alive today are over 24; half the Jhoans are over 8. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jhoan Jhon
France 15155

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jhoan and Jhon.