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Updated August 21, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : God's grace

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Welsh : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. In North America this name has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).

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