Jann

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Jan

Related Names

See Jan

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jannsen
Jannssen
Jannsson
Jansson

Grammar

Jannsdatter
Jannsdóttir
Jansdóttir

- Danish
Nominative:	Jann
Genitive:	Janns

- Faroese
Nominative:	Jann
Accusative:	Jann
Dative:	Janni
Genitive:	Jans / Janns

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jann
Genitive:	Jannin
Partitive:	Jannia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jann
Genitive:	Janns

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jann
Genitive:	Janns

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1868 (Göteborg, Västergötland)
• Finland: ca 1950

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1920-1939
  • 1960-1969
• Norway:
  • 1940-1960

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 26 people were named Jann (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %)

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&
Denmark		290	n.a.	0	n.a.	290	n.a.
Sweden		45	74	2	5	43	69
Finland		n.a.	25	0	0	n.a.	25
Norway		442	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	442	n.a.
Greenland		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 Jann.