Jo-Han
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jo-Han is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 175,036 people, counted by Skatteverket, which ranks it 10th. 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. Jo-Han is also written 요한 in Korean (Hangul), ยอหัน in Thai and Յոհան in Armenian.
- SESweden1 in 58(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 339
- NONorway1 in 557
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)
- Record sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
175,036 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jo-Han in other scripts: Korean (Hangul), Thai and Armenian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Johan in SE Sweden, FI Finland, US United States and 2 more, Yohan in FR France, DK Denmark and Jôhân in EC Ecuador.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 |
| FI Finland | #616 | 16,456 | 1 in 339 | 37K | Johan | 20 |
| US United States | — | 15,883 | 1 in 21K | 15K | Johan | 307 |
| 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)- Byun Yo-hanb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Go Yo-hanb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- 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)No register attests this spelling yet
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 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Jo-Han?
- 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. After it come France, Ecuador, Finland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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” — ranked 10th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.