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Male Name
Usage
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Creative spelling (German) of Jan [1] [2]
Related Names
See Jan
Male
Jahnsen
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Jahnson
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Jahnssen
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Jahnsson
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Jahnssøn
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Jahnsøn
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Female
Jahndatter
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Jahnsdatter
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Jahnsdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jahn
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Genitive: |
Jahns
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jahn
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Genitive: |
Jahnin
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Partitive: |
Jahnia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jahn
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Genitive: |
Jahns
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jahn
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Genitive: |
Jahns
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Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Jahn Otto Johansen (3 May 1934 – 1 January 2018), Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer
- Jahn Teigen (né Jan Teigen, born 27 September 1949), Norwegian singer, musician and comedian
- Jahn Ivar "Mini" Jakobsen (born 8 November 1965), Norwegian footballer
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 187 people were named Jahn (percentage of first or only given name: 94 %) [3]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[4] |
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117 |
245 |
0 |
3 |
117 |
242 |
Denmark[5] |
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40 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
40 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
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n.a. |
18 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
18 |
Norway[7] |
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569 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
569 |
n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
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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 Jahn.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/