Jóhannes

given name · Latin script

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

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

Jóhannes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 202(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 311
  • ATAustria≈1 in 356

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈280,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
315 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JóhannesLatin(measured from records)
โยฮันเนสThai(measured from records)
ΓιοχανεςGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Johannes in DE Germany, FI Finland, ZA South Africa and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jóhannes 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 Jóhannes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#2≈280,000 est.≈1 in 202—Johannes107
DE Germany#64≈200,000 est.≈1 in 401—Johannes315
FI Finland#795130,3031 in 43264KJohannes52
SE Sweden#37732,7791 in 31133KJohannes104
AT Austria#37≈25,000 est.≈1 in 35617KJohannes184

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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Jóhannes is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Johannes

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Johannes, Johannès

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland

    Also written Johannes

9 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)

1850190019502000Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, b. 1885Jóhannes Gunnarsson, b. 1897Jóhannes úr Kötlum, b. 1899Jóhannes av Skarði, b. 1911Jóhannes Nordal, b. 1924Jóhannes Atlason, b. 1944Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, b. 1950Jóhannes Harðarson, b. 1976Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, b. 1980Joey Guðjónsson, b. 1980

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 Jóhannes,

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 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Jóhannes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14#30,179

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 are other forms of the name Jóhannes?
In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Jóhannes?
A machine transcription gives /jouːhanɛs/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Jóhannes a male or female name?
Jóhannes 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 Jóhannes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 280 thousand people named Jóhannes in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johannes.
Where is Jóhannes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jóhannes is densest in Finland — about 1 in 43 people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jóhannes?
In Finland, the national register counted 130,303 people named Jóhannes, about 1 in 43 residents.
How common is Jóhannes compared with other names?
In South Africa, Jóhannes is the 2nd most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jóhannes” — the 2nd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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