Jöns
Meaning and origin
Wiktionary describes it as a male given name, a contraction of Johannes.
Source: Wiktionary, Swedish entry for Jöns (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Popularity in Sweden
Few babies have been given the name since 1998; it belongs mostly to older generations. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
Show the figures
| Year | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1998 | – |
| 1999 | – |
| 2000 | – |
| 2001 | – |
| 2002 | – |
| 2003 | – |
| 2004 | – |
| 2005 | – |
| 2006 | – |
| 2007 | – |
| 2008 | – |
| 2009 | – |
| 2010 | – |
| 2011 | – |
| 2012 | – |
| 2013 | – |
| 2014 | – |
| 2015 | – |
| 2016 | – |
| 2017 | – |
| 2018 | – |
| 2019 | – |
| 2020 | – |
| 2021 | – |
| 2022 | 2 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
Show the figures
| Year | Women and girls | Men and boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 | 600 |
| 2000 | 22 | 574 |
| 2001 | 20 | 532 |
| 2002 | 19 | 496 |
| 2003 | 18 | 460 |
| 2004 | 18 | 438 |
| 2005 | 18 | 417 |
| 2006 | 16 | 394 |
| 2007 | 16 | 369 |
| 2008 | 15 | 352 |
| 2009 | 15 | 333 |
| 2010 | 15 | 313 |
| 2011 | 14 | 296 |
| 2012 | 14 | 284 |
| 2013 | 14 | 263 |
| 2014 | 14 | 251 |
| 2015 | 14 | 234 |
| 2016 | 14 | 223 |
| 2017 | 13 | 209 |
| 2018 | 13 | 199 |
| 2019 | 13 | 190 |
| 2020 | 13 | 182 |
Jöns in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Jöns.Hi! My name is Jöns.
- Har du träffat Jöns? Han började jobba här i måndags.Have you met Jöns? He started working here on Monday.
- Jöns har bott i Uppsala i tre år.Jöns has lived in Uppsala for three years.
- Jöns mamma är lärare.Jöns's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Jöns mamma is Jöns's mum. Because Jöns already ends in s, nothing is added.
Related names and other spellings
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Questions about Jöns
How do you pronounce Jöns in Swedish?
Press Listen at the top of the page to hear Jöns in your device's Swedish voice. J is said like the English y. Ö is like the vowel in 'bird', said with rounded lips.
What does the name Jöns mean?
Wiktionary describes it as a male given name, a contraction of Johannes.
How popular is Jöns in Sweden?
2 babies were named Jöns in 2022. In 2020, 195 people in Sweden had Jöns as the first name they go by.
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.