The Jones Surname
- Meaning
- son of John
- Type
- Patronymic
- Root
- Welsh, from John
- Chiefly
- Wales and the borders
The commonest surname in Wales by a distance. Welsh naming used ap, ‘son of’, and did not fix hereditary surnames until relatively late; when English administration required fixed names, a great many families settled on the father’s given name plus the English -s.
Because the pool of given names in use was small, the resulting surnames are few and enormous. Jones, Williams, Davies, Evans and Thomas between them cover a remarkable share of the Welsh population.
Bestow the name a title it never had
An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Jones name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.
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