Jan

Jan

1. Abbreviation of January.

From Old French Jehan (“John”).

• enPR: jăn, IPA^(key): /dʒæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Jan

1. (dated) A male given name

Shortened from Janet and Janice.

• enPR: jăn, IPA^(key): /dʒæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Jan

1. A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
   • 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith: Chapter 1:

     "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 (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 Polish, Czech, German, Dutch, modern Scandinavian etc. Jan, from Latin Johannes (“John”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan/

Jan

1. A male given name, in English mostly applied to foreign language speakers.

• JNA

• IPA^(key): [ˈjan]

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• Rhymes: -an

Jan m

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

• Gan

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

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.

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• Rhymes: -ɑn

Jan m

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

Jan m

1. A male given name.

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

From German Low German Jehann (/ʝəɦæ̃ˑn/). A Low German and North European variant of 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

Jan m

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

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

• Jean
• Jón

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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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.