Jann
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The father of the jinn preceding humanity
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdʒæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Jann, a reduced form of Johann.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Jann is read(measured from records)
Jann is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English66%
The father of the jinn preceding humanity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jann in Spanish.
- German7.6%
Patronym zu Johannes; v.a. im Saarland. 415 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jann 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Jann | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Jann | 86 |
| US United States | 2,559 | 1 in 130K | 2.2K | Jann | 286 |
| AU Australia | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 3 | Jann | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Jann | 85 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 340 | Jann | 26 |
| NO Norway | 406 | 1 in 13K | 952 | Jann | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 270 | 1 in 22K | 270 | — | 2 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jann is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Jann, a reduced form of Johann.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In acy, to go mad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jann Haworthb. 1942USAmerican artist (born 1942)
- Jann Wennerb. 1946USAmerican magazine founder
- Jann Jakobsb. 1953DEGerman politician
- Jann Carlb. 1960USAmerican journalist
- Jann Ardenb. 1962CACanadian singer-songwriter
- Jann Turnerb. 1964ZASouth African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter (born 1964)
- Jann Jensenb. 1969DKDanish football player and manager
- Jann Cnossenb. 1972NLDutch actress and singer
- Jann Ingi Petersenb. 1984FOFaroese footballer
- Jann Mardenboroughb. 1991GBBritish racing driver
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)
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 54 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #6,301 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 952 | #1,696 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 406 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 318 | #6,301 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 270 | #721 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #25,502 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1998 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1963 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1968 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1951 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Jann come from?
- from the personal name Jann, a reduced form of Johann. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jann?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒæn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jann a male or female name?
- Jann is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Jann mean?
- In English, The father of the jinn preceding humanity.
- In which country does Jann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Jann in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jann.
- Where is Jann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jann is densest in Norway — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,559 people named Jann in 2020, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jann?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jannThe 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, “Jann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.