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Baby name
John
Boy
Origin of the name
John comes, through Latin and Greek, from the Hebrew Yohanan, “God is gracious.” It is the English form of the French Jean.
Classic name
5,182,633births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 3rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named John are born
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The darker the blue, the more common John is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, John is most common in Rhode Island (1.6 times), Massachusetts (1.6) and Pennsylvania (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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