girls:
687 births since 1929
#5029 (12th percentile)
boys:
24 births since 1922
#4562 (0th percentile)
overall:
711 births since 1922
#7028 (9th percentile)
The name Jone is the #7,028 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 711 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,029 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 687 births since 1929. For boys, it ranks #4,562 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1922.
Jone first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Jone is available in 53 out of the 78 years between 1922 and 1999 (50 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jone has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1929, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1922 to 1928), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.3% girls from 1929 to 1999).
For girls, Jone reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #693) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 19 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
For boys, Jone reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #758) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jone".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jone is pronounced as john, which has 1 syllables.
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