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jones Name Meaning and History

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).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of jones Families in the US in 1920
Number of jones families
 5906-11809
 1969-5905		 1-1968
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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