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Jones (surname)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jones
Family Name

Meaning Derived from "Son of John"
Region of origin England
Popularity Behind the Name 
Wikipedia articles All pages beginning with Jones


Jones is a popular family name of English origin that comes from the term son of John, but can also be attributed to the name Jonah. It is one of the most common surnames in the English and Welsh speaking world.

According to the National Trust surname profiler Jones is the second most numerous surname in the UK. There were 391,909 Joneses on the UK electoral register in 1998. This represents a rate of 10,521 Joneses per million Britons or just over 1% of the population. The proportion of Joneses in other Anglophone countries is slightly lower: the rate in Australia is 6,548 per million; Canada, 3,882 per million; USA, 8,334 per million; and New Zealand, 5,499 per million. This name is much rarer in the Irish Republic with a rate of only 144 per million.


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[edit] History

The Jones surname was first documented in England.[1] The highest frequencies of the name are found in Wales and result from migration and the anglicisation of the patronymic naming convention, e.g., Gwilym ap Sion (Welsh for "William son of John") to Gwilym Jones.[2] This despite the fact that it was only recently that the letter 'J' began to be added to some versions of the Welsh alphabet.[3][4]

In 1813-1841, there were about 145,000 people named Jones living in Wales (13.84% of the total population) and about 85,000 people named Jones living in England (0.43% of the population).[5][6][7] By 1881, migration to the urban centres of England had equalised the numbers so that both countries had a little over 163,000 people named Jones recorded in the census of that year.[8] Even so, it shows some areas of North Wales still had very high proportions of people carrying the name, for example in Sir Feirionnydd (Merionethshire) 23.6% and Sir Gaernarfon (Caernarfonshire) 22.3% were named Jones compared with 10.4% in Wales as a whole and 0.67% in England. Other, more readily identifiable Welsh names, such as Lloyd and Price (from ap Rhys), had greater proportions of their numbers living in England than Wales in 1881 - this may be because of the relatively higher concentrations of Jones in Welsh speaking areas.

It is likely that a number of Afro-Caribbean and African-American Joneses got their names from freed slaves adopting the names of the estate managers or owners.[9][10]

[edit] Notable people named Jones

[edit] Arts and entertainment

[edit] Architecture

  • Inigo Jones (1573-1652), English architect of Welsh descent

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[edit] Music

[edit] Radio

[edit] Television

[edit] Visual arts

[edit] Business

  • Duncan Jones, American advertising executive, son of the musician David Bowie

[edit] Education

[edit] History

  • Casey Jones, famous U.S. locomotive engineer, subject of an eponymous song

[edit] Law and politics

[edit] Law

  • Edith Jones, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the fifth circuit.

[edit] American politics

[edit] United Kingdom politics

[edit] Other politics

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[edit] Astronomy

[edit] Archeology

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[edit] Sports

[edit] American football

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Cricket

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Motor Racing

  • Adam Jones, racer in the British Touring Car Championship

[edit] Rugby League

[edit] Rugby Union

[edit] Track and field (athletics)

[edit] Other sports

[edit] Sports Executives

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[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jones Family Name History
  2. ^ Welsh Facts and Fun
  3. ^ Welsh language, alphabet and pronunciation
  4. ^ Thomas, Peter Wynn (1996) Gramadeg y Gymraeg. Cardiff: University of Wales Press: 757
  5. ^ Surnames
  6. ^ England & Wales
  7. ^ Wales
  8. ^ 1881 census
  9. ^ Cruickshank, 'Liberated Africans,' p. 78
  10. ^ John Thornton, 'Central African Names and African-American Naming Patterns' - 'The William and Mary Quarterly', 3rd Series, 50, 4(October 1993): 728, 730, 733-739.

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