Jahner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a derivative of the personal name Johann(es) (see John)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdʒɑnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jahner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 469K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 88K
- DEGermany≈1 in 329K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 a derivative of the personal name Johann(es) (see John).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jahner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Jahner | 1 |
| US United States | 709 | 1 in 469K | 740 | Jahner | 175 |
| DE Germany | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Jahner | 53 |
| EG Egypt | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Jahner | 2 |
| CO Colombia | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 697K | — | Jahner | 7 |
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. 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)Jahner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym mit -er zu Jahn < Johannes; in ganz Deutschland. 109 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 740 | #33,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 709 | #32,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 637 | #33,735 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jahner mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of the personal name Johann(es) (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jahner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɑnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jahner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Jahner in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jahner.
- How common is the name Jahner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 709 people named Jahner in 2010, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jahnerThe 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, “Jahner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.