Boy · Hebrew, through Greek
Ion
Say it: YON
Meaning
From Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Traditionally the most common Romanian man's name.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 260 babies given this name since 1928
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 137,300 boys
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ioan, Ionel
| English | John |
|---|---|
| Greek | Ioannis |
Famous bearers
- Ion Creangă, writer
- Ion Luca Caragiale, playwright
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.