Jan

Jan

1. Abbreviation of January.

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): /jɑn/, /jæn/

Jan

1. A male given name, equivalent to English John

• JNA, Jna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Jan m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

• (pet forms): Honza, Janek, Janeček, Jenda, Jeník, Jeníček
• Jana, Janička

Jan

1. genitive plural of Jana

Jan

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

• (surnames) Jansen
• Jens and its variants

• 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

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

Borrowed from German Low German Jehann (/ʝəɦæ̃ˑn/). A Low German and North European variant of German Johann (“John”), popular in Germany at the end of the 20th century.

• IPA^(key): /jan/, [jan]
• IPA^(key): /jaːn/, [jɑːn] (considered wrong by some)

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• Rhymes: -an, -aːn

Jan

1. a male given name

• 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
• 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.

• IPA^(key): /jan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Jan

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English John

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɑːn]

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
• 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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