Jean m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Jean f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

French form of Johannes ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Jeanne and Jan

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1663 ^[2]

Namesakes

Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius - Finnish composer (1865 - 1957)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		154	540	1082	2841
Denmark[5]		297	n.a.	714	n.a
Norway[6]		41	117	50	377
Finland[7]		n.a.	207	n.a	999
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Jean.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi