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Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the English female name see Jan f, for the Persian male name see Jan 1
Usage
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Low German, Frisian and Dutch short form of Jahan (see Johann) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
2) Low German, Frisian and Dutch short form of names ending with -ian
3) Swedish variant form of Jean [6]
4) Slavic short form of Johannes [9] [11]
Related Names
See also Jaen, Janke, Jankin, Janko, Jannik, Janek
For female forms see Jana, Janina, Janna, Jansine
Male
Janinpoika
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Jansen
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Janson
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Janssen
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Jansson
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Janssøn
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Jansøn
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Janzen
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Janzén
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Janzon
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Female
Jandatter
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Janintytär
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Jansdatter
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Jansdotter
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Jansdóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see JAN (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Genitive: |
Jans
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Accusative: |
Jani
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Dative: |
Jani
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Genitive: |
Jans
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Genitive: |
Janin
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Partitive: |
Jania
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Accusative: |
Jan
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Dative: |
Jan
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Genitive: |
Jans
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Genitive: |
Jans
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jan
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Genitive: |
Jans
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Name Days
Norway
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24 September
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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24 June
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Sweden
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11 January
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 107,683 people were named Jan m (percentage of first or only given name: 93 %) [15]
- Långe Jan (tall Jan) is the name of Sweden's tallest lighthouse (42 metres) on the south coast of the island Öland
- Jan-bøgerne (Jan-books), a Danish series of 81 detective novels for children written by Knud Meister and Carlo Andersen between 1941 and 1964
- Jan was a heavy storm in Sweden in January 2019.
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[17] |
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57844 |
126114 |
12 |
115 |
57832 |
125999 |
Denmark[18] |
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37264 |
n.a. |
11 |
n.a. |
37253 |
n.a. |
Finland[19] |
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n.a. |
15091 |
n.a. |
26 |
n.a. |
15065 |
Iceland[20] |
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187 |
545 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[21] |
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167 |
281 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[22] |
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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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [17][18][22][19]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [23]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Jan (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (2015)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 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/
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables