Popularity of the last name by country
Chile
- Valparaíso (82)
- Coquimbo (15)
- Antofagasta (7)
- Tarapacá (3)
- Metropolitana de Santiago (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (2,127,395)
- United States (1,249,511)
- Australia (99,130)
- New Zealand (65,671)
- Ireland (56,422)
- France (33,481)
- Canada (26,149)
- Unknown country (20,258)
- Germany (5,017)
- Netherlands (4,932)
- Belgium (4,090)
- Switzerland (3,709)
- Italy (3,228)
- Spain (2,194)
- India (2,174)
- Colombia (1,662)
- Mexico (1,626)
- Sweden (1,441)
- Finland (989)
- China (943)
- Argentina (858)
- South Africa (855)
- Austria (729)
- Denmark (718)
- Hungary (713)
- Czech republic (705)
- Poland (678)
- Russian Federation (678)
- Jamaica (673)
- Greece (656)
- Turkey (599)
- Peru (508)
- Brazil (493)
- Egypt (459)
- Norway (444)
- Philippines (400)
- Paraguay (372)
- Israel (368)
- Cuba (366)
- Luxembourg (366)
Origine of last name
JONES : 1: English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/John">John</a>) with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.2: English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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