Yon

Where Yon comes from

The dictionaries list Yon as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #3,665 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Peak, #2,973
    11 babies named Yon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yon hasn't yet.

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.