Jaan

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish and Dutch variant form of Jan [1]

Related Names

See Jan

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jaan
Genitive: Jaans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jaan
Genitive: Jaanin
Partitive: Jaania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jaan
Genitive: Jaans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jaan
Genitive: Jaans

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 312 people were named Jaan (percentage of first or only given name: 94 %) [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[3]
n.a.
753 0 0
n.a.
753
Sweden Sweden[4]
187 344 0 2 187 342
Denmark Denmark[5]
12
n.a.
0
n.a.
12
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[6]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
15
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
15
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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 Jaan.


References

  1. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  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. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/