Jan

Jan

2. Abbreviation of January.

   Alternative forms: Jan., JAN

   Comeronyms: Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

3. A male given name from Dutch.

From Old French Jehan (“John”). Doublet of John.

• enPR: jăn, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Jan

1. (dated) A male given name from Hebrew.

A clipping or hypochoristic form of Janet, Janice, Janine, Janis, etc.

Doublet of Ivanka, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.

• enPR: jăn, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Jan

1. A female given name.
   • 1899, Paul Leicester Ford, chapter 1, in Janice Meredith:

     "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.

   • 2008, Stephen King, Just after Sunset, Simon and Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, page 129:

     She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?

• not happy, Jan

From various European languages, ultimately from Latin Johannes.

• IPA^(key): /jɑːn/

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• IPA^(key): /jæn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn
• Homophone: yarn (non-rhotic)

Jan

1. A male given name, equivalent to English John.

• JNA, Jna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Inherited from Old Czech Jan, Ján, from Latin Joannes.

Jan m anim (female equivalent Jana or Janička, diminutive Honza or Janek or Janeček or Jenda or Jeník or Jeníček)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

• “Jan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Jan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Jan”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “Jan”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Jan

1. genitive plural of Jana

Jan

1. a male given name, popular in the 20th century, equivalent to English John

• (surnames) Jansen
• Jens and its variants

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 46 783 males with the given name Jan have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Middle Dutch jan, from Latin Iōhannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן. Shortening of Johannes.

• IPA^(key): /jɑn/

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• Hyphenation: Jan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Jan m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

• Johan

Jan m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Jan: Jansson
• daughter of Jan: Jansdóttir

• (rare) Jaan, Jahn, Jann

From Central and Low German dialects. Modern use may have been reinforced by related Germanic and Slavic forms.

• IPA^(key): /jan/, (seldom also) /jaːn/

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• Rhymes: -an, -aːn

Jan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Jans or (with an article) Jan)

1. a male given name, variant of Johann, popular in the later 20th century

• Janne (Eupen)
• Jean
• Jón
• Sjeng
  • Schäng (Eupen)

Jan m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

• Hans

From Dutch and West Frisian Jan in the 18th century. A contraction of Johannes (“John”). Newer variant of the more traditional Norwegian Jon.

Jan

1. a male given name

• The most common given name of men born in Norway from the 1940s to the 1970s.

• Johannes and its variants
• (surname) Jansen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 50 519 males with the given name Jan living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

• Ján

Borrowed from Latin Joannes.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈjan/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈjan/

Jan m pers (diminutive Jěnek or Jěník)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

• Czech: Jan

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Jan”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Learned borrowing from Late Latin Iōhannēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Jan

Jan m pers (diminutive Janek or Jaś or Jasiek or Jasio or Janko)

1. a male given name from Late Latin [in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English John

• Jan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Jan

1. abbreviation of Januari

   Coordinate terms: Feb, Mac, Apr, Jun, Jul, Ago, Sep, Okt, Nov, Des

Contraction of Johan (“John”). Recorded in Sweden since the 17th century.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɑːn]

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Jan c (genitive Jans)

1. a male given name

• Common first part of hyphenated names such as Jan-Erik or Jan-Olof.

• Johannes and its variants
• (surname) Jansson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 129 738 males with the given name Jan living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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