Jahn

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling (German) of Jan

Related Names

See Jan

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jahnsen
Jahnson
Jahnssen
Jahnsson
Jahnssøn
Jahnsøn

Female

Jahndatter
Jahnsdatter
Jahnsdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Jahn
Genitive:	Jahns

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jahn
Genitive:	Jahnin
Partitive:	Jahnia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jahn
Genitive:	Jahns

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jahn
Genitive:	Jahns

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1935-1945
  • 1980-1985
• Sweden:
  • 1930-1959

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Västsverige
  • Gotland

Namesakes

• Jahn Otto Johansen (3 May 1934 – 1 January 2018), Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, foreign correspondent and non-fiction writer
• Jahn Teigen (né Jan Teigen, born 27 September 1949), Norwegian singer, musician and comedian
• Jahn Ivar "Mini" Jakobsen (born 8 November 1965), Norwegian footballer

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 187 people were named Jahn (percentage of first or only given name: 94 %)

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&
Sweden		117	245	0	3	117	242
Denmark		40	n.a.	0	n.a.	40	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	18	0	0	n.a.	18
Norway		569	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	569	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 Jahn.