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It was Jughead until Archie Comics threatened to sue Western Publishing for using that name. I don't know what it is but I think his name might be Jay.

Was it really "Jughead"? Barks never mentioned his first name. However, in one story you could read "J. Jones" on his letterbox.
There was a guy called "Jughead Jones" in the ten-pager in US 6, but he was clearly not the Mr. Jones we all know.

Also, the Dutch Jones has a first name. Bertus Bolderbast. Bertus is also the Dutch name of Scrooge's butler in Italian stories. Maybe nice to know.

That Jughead Jones fellow in US 6 might be J. Jones - but his face isn't the same as J. Jones (even though the hair color and the hairdo is quite the same...) and he's way too nice to be old J.J. So it's probably not the Jones we are thinking of, so his first name could be almost anything, especially in the Donald Duck universe, staring with a "J". When I think of Jones' name I don't think of common names as John or Jim etc. but of names just like Jughead or names of characters like Slackjaw Snorehead... But I haven't figured out a name I like yet...

Quote from user: QuackbergOk, here is one name that could be Jones' full name: Jumbo Jones, Jr.

I think that "Jumbo" might fit as Jones' first name as Jones is kinda fat and I added the Junior-part mostly because to add another "J".
I think that "Jellybelly" sounds more Barksish. In fact, he even mentioned that to me as a potential chubby supporting character's name. Jellybelly J. Jones, Jr. (Middle "J" standing for "Junkbutt".

Of course, Barks chose Jones, because Smith and Jones were the two most common American names during the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, before the mass migration of Latin Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders Eastern Europeans, etc. That made Jones an "everyman". That was ironic, as Jones was NOT the common man, but the extreme "overreacting man"-as was Donald. That made for great, exaggerated explosive situations.

Jones should have been named Schmidt or Müller in Germany, Hansen or Larsen in Denmark, Garcia in Mexico, Wong in China, Kim in Korea, etc.

Quote from user: QuackbergThat Jughead Jones fellow in US 6 might be J. Jones - but his face isn't the same as J. Jones (even though the hair color and the hairdo is quite the same...) and he's way too nice to be old J.J.
Over the years Barks drew Jones differently, just like Gladstone Gander in his oil paintings. It still might be J. Jones, altough that would mean he lives in between Donald and Gyro. I think he'd move as soon as he could. :)

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderOver the years Barks drew Jones differently, just like Gladstone Gander in his oil paintings. It still might be J. Jones [in the US 6 story].
Agreed.

The US 6 story is based on an earlier Barks story featuring Barney Bear and Mooseface McElk. While Barks apparently didn't create the character of Mooseface, he used him as an unmistakable J. Jones surrogate in 1946-47, opposite Barney's "Donald" role.

It seems quite obvious to me that when Barks decided to reuse the treasure hunt plot for US 6, his thought process must have gone something lke this: "Okay, so in the original version of this plot, Barney was competing with his neighbor Mooseface. Who will Donald compete with?... Hmm, how about that neighbor character I used to use with Donald??Jones, wasn't it? Yeah, I'll use him."

So Barks (as I imagine it) redrew Jones from memory; most critically leaving off his angry eyebrows, leading to a significantly different look.
The resulting "Jughead" may not be as mean as the Jones of 1945, but he still scoffingly calls Donald "ducko"; and if one looks at the Mooseface stories, one finds Mooseface's meanness level varying from story to story.

Another story from the same period could support my theory of Barks' working from memory. In W WDC 168-01, Donald's nephews have a pet chipmunk named Cheltenham. In W WDC 179-02, they have a pet squirrel named Sidney; at first glance there would seem to be no relation between the two stories, nor the two animals??squirrels and chipmunks have different kinds of tails.
Yet in W WDC 179-02, all uses of the name "Sidney" are written in by a hand that is not original. The name doesn't fit in the voice balloons, where a much longer name was visibly there before (example: page 8, pic 3). Thus my theory: Barks reused Cheltenham from memory, turning him from a chipmunk into a squirrel in the process. His editors caught the inconsistency and "fixed" it by giving the squirrel version a new name.

If Barks could misremember a chipmunk as a squirrel, he could forget Jones' eyebrows, too. Of course, I don't really know what happened in either case.