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Jan
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Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic
Greenlandic
Origin and Meaning
1) Low German, Frisian and Dutch short form of Jahan (see Johann) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
2) Low German, Frisian and Dutch short form of names ending with -ian
3) Swedish variant form of Jean [6]
4) Slavic short form of Johannes [9] [11]
Related Names
| Jaan | ♂ |   |
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| Jaani | ♂ |  |
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| Jahn | ♂ | |
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| Jan | ♂ |   |
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| Jáne | ♂ |   |
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| Jani | ♂ |  |
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| Jann | ♂ | |
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| Janne | ♂ |  |
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| Janni | ♂ |   |
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| Jannu | ♂ |  |
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| Janny | ♂ | |
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| Jansi | ♂ | |
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| Janu | ♂ | |
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| Yan | ♂ | |
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See also Janke, Jankin, Janko, Jannik, Janek
For female forms see Jana, Janina, Janna, Jansine
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Janinpoika |
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| Jansen |
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| Janson |
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| Janssen |
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| Jansson |
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| Janssøn |
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| Jansøn |
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| Janzen |
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| Janzén |
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| Janzon |
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Female
| Jandatter |
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| Janintytär |
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| Jansdatter |
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| Jansdotter |
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| Jansdóttir |
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Combinations
For combinations see JAN (name element)
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Genitive: | Jans |
| - Faroese |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Accusative: | Jani |
| Dative: | Jani |
| Genitive: | Jans |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Genitive: | Janin |
| Partitive: | Jania |
| - Icelandic |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Accusative: | Jan |
| Dative: | Jan |
| Genitive: | Jans |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Genitive: | Jans |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Jan |
| Genitive: | Jans |
Name Days
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24 September |
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24 June |
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11 January |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: 13th century [9]
- Sweden: 17th century (officially written form, earlier as a pet form)[6] [8]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Sweden:
- Johan (Jan) Gustafsson Banér (23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641), Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War
- Jan Birger Gezelius (9 September 1923 - 5 September 2016), Swedish architect
- Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö (born 29 May 1932), Swedish actor
- Jan Olov Karlsson (1 June 1939 – 19 September 2016), Swedish politician
- Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944), Swedish author and journalist
- Jan Christian Johansen (born 9 January 1966), Swedish singer
- Norway:
- Jan Peder Syse (25 November 1930 – 17 September 1997), former Prime Minister of Norway (1989-1990)
- Denmark:
- Jan Holger Lindhardt (24 April 1938 – 11 November 2014), Danish theologian and writer
Trivia
- Jan-bøgerne (Jan-books), a Danish series of 81 detective novels for children written by Knud Meister and Carlo Andersen between 1941 and 1964
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[12] |
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9 | 86 | 61551 | 128381 |
| Norway[13] |
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17 | n.a. | 48094 | n.a. |
| Denmark[14] |
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13 | n.a. | 38277 | n.a. |
| Iceland[15] |
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0 | 0 | 138 | 337 |
| Finland[16] |
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n.a. | 14 | n.a. | 14204 |
| #: 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [17]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables