Jóhann

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English John

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/jouːhan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jóhann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Iceland it is the 34th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 175(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 10K
  • SESweden1 in 10K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,853 people, 2020

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Johann in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name, equivalent to English John

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jóhann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jóhann is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5,8531 in 57K5.3KJohann66
IS Iceland#342,0051 in 1752KJóhann74
EC Ecuador—1,6861 in 10K1.7K——
BR Brazil—1,6191 in 131K1.6K——
SE Sweden—1,0111 in 10K1KJohann30
NO Norway—4371 in 13K1.3KJohann34
DK Denmark#8083031 in 19K303Johann64

5,853 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa — population register names 2023; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jóhann is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Joh-Ann

  • German given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, South Africa

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Johann, Joehann, Johãņn, Johānn, Johänn

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, United States

    Also written Johann, Joh-Ann, Johañn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Johann

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa, United States

    Also written Johann

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Switzerland, South Africa, United States

    Also written Johann, Jöhann, Jöhänn

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Johann Gottfried Rosenberg, b. 1709Jóhann Sigurjónsson, b. 1880Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson, b. 1894Jóhann Hafstein, b. 1915Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, b. 1955Jóhann Sigurðarson, b. 1956Jóhann Hjartarson, b. 1963Jóhann Jóhannsson, b. 1969Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson, b. 1990Þórir Jóhann Helgason, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Jóhann,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Jóhann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 202320232K#10
IS IcelandStatistics Iceland — Names (1703–present)—2K#10
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20262K—
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)20052K#10
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—53#2,228
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#19,049
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201920—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202019—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201818—
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021)202116#32
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201216—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201615—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jóhann mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English John Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Jóhann?
In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Jóhann?
A machine transcription gives /jouːhan/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
How common is the name Jóhann?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,853 people named Jóhann in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
How common is Jóhann compared with other names?
In Iceland, Jóhann is the 34th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
Is Jóhann a male or female name?
Jóhann is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Jóhann have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Jóhann, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johann.
Where is Jóhann most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jóhann is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jóhann” — the 34th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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