Jehn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Johann/Johannes; Nebenform zu Jahn
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jehn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 118K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 230K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
≈680 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Johann/Johannes; Nebenform zu Jahn. Belegt mit 290 Trägern.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jehn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 118K | listed | Jehn | 59 |
| US United States | 215 | 1 in 1.5M | 226 | Jehn | 133 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Jehn | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Jehn | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 42 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Jehn | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 579K | — | Jehn | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-6 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Jehn 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.
In German, patronymische Kurzform zu Johannes; 290 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from Johannes
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Wilhelm Jehnb. 1883DEGerman surgeon
- Margarete Jehnb. 1935DEGerman translator and music educator (1935–2021)
- Wolfgang Jehnb. 1937DEGerman composer (1937–2017)
- Christopher Jehnb. 1943USAmerican economist and Defense official
- Karen JehnUSresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-6325-1347
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 226 | #88,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 215 | #86,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #118,404 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,737 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Jehn?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jehn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Johann/Johannes; Nebenform zu Jahn.
- In which country does Jehn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 680 people named Jehn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jehn.
- How common is the name Jehn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 215 people named Jehn in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jehnThe 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, “Jehn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.