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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Jean f for the female version.
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
French name (pronunciation [ʒɑ̃] (key))
French form of Johannes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See also Jan and Žanis
For female forms see Jeanne
Male
Jeanson
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Jeansson
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Female
Jeansdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeanin
|
Partitive: |
Jeania
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
Name Day
 Finland (Swedish Language)
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24 June
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2609 people were named Jean m (percentage of first or only given name: 59 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
1306 |
3740 |
160 |
693 |
1146 |
3047 |
Denmark[13] |
|
987 |
n.a. |
291 |
n.a. |
696 |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
1942 |
n.a. |
327 |
n.a. |
1615 |
Iceland[15] |
|
15 |
64 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
3 |
13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[17] |
|
570 |
n.a. |
127 |
n.a. |
443 |
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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[12][13][17][14]:
Sources: [12] [13] [17] [14]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Jean (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no