Jóhanns

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Jóhanns is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Johann, Johannes (see John).

  • ISIceland≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 86K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 120K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈720 people, est.

Record sources
152 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Johanns in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BE Belgium 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

(measured from records)

patronymic from the personal name Johann, Johannes (see John).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Jóhanns 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 Jóhanns is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈720 est.≈1 in 116Klisted——
US United States4511 in 738K460Johanns152
BE Belgium1371 in 86K137Johanns7
GB United Kingdom≈110 est.≈1 in 628K—Johanns4
BR Brazil781 in 2.7M78——
NL Netherlands771 in 224K77Johanns14
SG Singapore≈23 est.≈1 in 260K—Johanns1
IS Iceland≈6 est.≈1 in 70Klisted——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Jóhanns is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Johanns

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jóhanns under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jóhanns mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the personal name Johann, Johannes (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Jóhanns have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 720 people named Jóhanns in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Jóhanns?
In the United States, the national register counted 451 people named Jóhanns in 2010, about 1 in 738 thousand residents.

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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, “Jóhanns”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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