Johàn

given name · Latin script

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

Johàn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Benin it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Swedish Iohan or short form of Johannes (“John”). First recorded in Sweden in runes in the 11th century.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 58(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 339
  • NONorway1 in 557

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

175,036 people

Sources
359 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

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 Johan in SE Sweden, US United States, BJ Benin.

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)

From Old Swedish Iohan or short form of Johannes (“John”). First recorded in Sweden in runes in the 11th century.

Sources 4

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Johàn 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 Johàn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#628175,0361 in 58175KJohan73
EC Ecuador—21,5461 in 78522K—11
FI Finland—16,4561 in 33937K—10
US United States—15,8831 in 21K15KJohan106
NO Norway—9,8101 in 55730K—21
DK Denmark—8,3641 in 7028.4K—1
BJ Benin#14———Johan8

175,036 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)

Johàn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name198 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Colombia, France, Venezuela, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, French, Korean

    Also written Johan, Yohan, 요한, 요환, Yo-Han

  • English given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Netherlands, South Africa

    Languages: English, Swedish, Dutch

    Also written Johan, Jo-Han, Joh-An, Jöhan, Jóhan

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Johàn 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 Johàn mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Swedish Iohan or short form of Johannes (“John”). First recorded in Sweden in runes in the 11th century. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Johàn a male or female name?
Johàn 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 Johàn have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 175 thousand people named Johàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johan.
Where is Johàn most common?
Johàn is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 people carrying it.
How common is the name Johàn?
In Sweden, the national register counted 175,036 people named Johàn, about 1 in 58 residents.
How common is Johàn compared with other names?
In Sweden, Johàn is the 628th most common given name of 45,482 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, “Johàn” — the 628th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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