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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Johan f for the female version.
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Younger form of Ióhan [1] [2] [3] [4]
2) Nordic form of Johann [1] [5] [2] [3] [5] [6] [7] [4]
Related Names
See also Janne, Jocke, Jógvan, Johá, Ujuât
For female forms see Johandine
Male
Johaninpoika
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Johansen
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Johansén
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Johanson
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Johanssen
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Johansson
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Johanssøn
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Johansøn
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Johanzon
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Female
Johandatter
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Johandotter
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Johanintytär
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Johansdatter
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Johansdotter
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Johansdóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see JON (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Johan
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Genitive: |
Johans
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Johan
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Genitive: |
Johanin
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Partitive: |
Johania
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Johan
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Accusative: |
Johan
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Dative: |
Johani
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Genitive: |
Johans
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Johan
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Genitive: |
Johans
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Johan
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Genitive: |
Johans
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Name Days
Norway
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29 August
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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24 June
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Sweden
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27 December
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Johan III, King of Sweden 1568-1592 (20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592)
- Johan Michael Lund (2 September 1753 – 15 May 1824), Norwegian lawyer, Faroese løgmaður (1786-1805)
- Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (22 December 1807 – 21 October 1873), Norwegian author, poet, critic and art theorist
- Johan Olof Ramstedt (7 November 1852 - 15 March 1935), Prime Minister of Sweden and Norway (1905)
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (27 November 1854 – 4 January 1928), Danish philologist and historian
- Johan (Jean) Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), Finnish composer
- Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (22 October 1870 – 30 September 1943), former Prime Minister of Norway (1924-1926 + 1928-1931 + 1933-1935)
- Johan Nygaardsvold (6 September 1879 - 13 March 1952), former Prime Minister of Norway (1935-1945)
- Johan Sigfrid Sirén (27 May 1889 – 5 March 1961), Finnish architect
- Johan Martin Ferner (né Johan Martin Jacobsen; 22 July 1927 – 24 January 2015), Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist
- Johan Olof Widerberg (born 16 March 1974), Swedish actor
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[11] |
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73661 |
174354 |
4 |
18 |
73657 |
174336 |
Finland[12] |
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n.a. |
36058 |
n.a. |
12 |
n.a. |
36046 |
Denmark[13] |
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7754 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
7754 |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
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259 |
943 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
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15 |
30 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
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9679 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
9679 |
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[11][13][16][12]:
Sources: [11] [13] [16] [12]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[16]:
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Johan (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no