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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Nordic male name see Jan m, for the English female name see Jan f
Persian name meaning 'life' [1]
Jan | ♂ |
|
Persian |
Jan is a name used among immigrants from Iran, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
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[2] |
|
57844 | 126114 | 12 | 115 | 57832 | 125999 |
Denmark[3] |
|
37264 | n.a. |
11 | n.a. |
37253 | n.a. |
Finland[4] |
|
n.a. |
15091 | n.a. |
26 | n.a. |
15065 |
Iceland[5] |
|
187 | 545 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[6] |
|
167 | 281 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
|
46564 | n.a. |
16 | n.a. |
46548 | 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. |
Sources: [8]
Regional distribution of Jan (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.