Jo-Han
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jo-Han is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 65th 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.
- SESweden1 in 58(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.8Kas 요한
- FRFrance≈1 in 3Kas Yohan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jo-Han itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
175,036 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Johan in SE Sweden, FI Finland, NO Norway and 1 more, Yohan in FR France, DK Denmark, Jôhân in EC Ecuador and 요한 in KR South Korea.
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
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jo-Han 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #501 | 175,036 | 1 in 58 | 175K | Johan | 82 |
| FR France | #413 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 35K | Yohan | 326 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 21,546 | 1 in 785 | 22K | Jôhân | 53 |
| KR South Korea | #572 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | 요한 | 87 |
| FI Finland | #616 | 16,456 | 1 in 339 | 37K | Johan | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,810 | 1 in 557 | 30K | Johan | 30 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,364 | 1 in 702 | 8.4K | Yohan | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #65 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Johan | 51 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chu Yo-hanb. 1900KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer (1900-1979)
- In Yohanb. 1959KRnot in their usual nameAmerican-South Korean politician (born 1959)
- Kim Yo-Hanb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean professional volleyball player
- Lee Yo-hanb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Byun Yo-hanb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Go Yo-hanb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Park Yo-hanb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Park Yo-hanb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer (born 1989)
- Han Yo-hanb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Yohan Hwangb. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer in the Philippines
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Jo-Han 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 Jo-Han a male or female name?
- Jo-Han 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 Jo-Han have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 175 thousand people named Jo-Han, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johan.
- Where is Jo-Han most common?
- Jo-Han is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jo-Han?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 175,036 people named Jo-Han, about 1 in 58 residents.
- How common is Jo-Han compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Jo-Han is the 501st most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jo-Han?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo-hanThe 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, “Jo-Han” — the 501st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.