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Male Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the English female name see Jan f, for the Persian male name see Jan 1

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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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] [12]

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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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jaani ♂
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 Finish
Jahn ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jan ♂
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 Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Jáne ♂
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 Greenlandic
Jani ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jann ♂
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 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janne ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janni ♂
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Jannu ♂
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 Finish
Janny ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Jansi ♂
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 Danish
Janu ♂
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Yan ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Jaen, Janke, Jankin, Janko, Jannik, Janek
For female forms see Jana, Janina, Janna, Jansine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Janinpoika Finland
Jansen Denmark Norway
Janson Norway Sweden
Janssen Denmark Norway
Jansson Faroe Islands Iceland Norway Sweden
Janssøn Norway
Jansøn Norway
Janzen Denmark Norway
Janzén Sweden
Janzon Sweden

Female

Jandatter Norway
Janintytär Finland
Jansdatter Denmark Norway
Jansdotter Norway Sweden
Jansdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see JAN (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jan
Genitive: Jans
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Jan
Accusative: Jani
Dative: Jani
Genitive: Jans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jan
Genitive: Janin
Partitive: Jania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Jan
Accusative: Jan
Dative: Jan
Genitive: Jans
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jan
Genitive: Jans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jan
Genitive: Jans

Name Days

Norway Norway

24 September

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

24 June

Sweden Sweden

11 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Långe Jan (tall Jan) is the name of Sweden's tallest lighthouse (42 metres) on the south coast of the island Öland
  • Jan-bøgerne (Jan-books), a Danish series of 81 detective novels for children written by Knud Meister and Carlo Andersen between 1941 and 1964
  • Jan was a heavy storm in Sweden in January 2019.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[14]
58971 126954 13 115 58958 126839
Norway Norway[15]
47131
n.a.
 19
n.a.
 47112
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[16]
37593
n.a.
 12
n.a.
 37581
n.a.
Finland Finland[17]
n.a.
 14779
n.a.
 23
n.a.
 14756
Iceland Iceland[18]
187 545
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[19]
167 281
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Jan (m) Sources: [14][16][15][17]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Jan (m) Sources: [20]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Jan (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Jan (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Jan (m)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  10. ↑ Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  12. ↑ Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  18. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  19. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  20. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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