Jones

Where Jones comes from

Jones hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1813
    Jones Very born
    American poet and essayist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #520
    13 babies named Jones — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 2006
    Jones El-Abdellaoui born
    Moroccan association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jones Very · American poet and essayist, 1813–1880
  • Jones El-Abdellaoui · Moroccan association football player, born 2006
  • Jones Mwewa · Zambian footballer, 1973–2011
  • Jones Kusi-Asare · Swedish footballer, born 1980
  • Jones Carioca · footballer, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.