Jowan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John

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

/dʒwɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jowan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 173K
  • DKDenmark1 in 178K

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.

United States (measured from records)

244 people, 2020

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jowan 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 Jowan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2441 in 1.4M182Jowan105
PH Philippines≈100 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Jowan10
NL Netherlands1001 in 173K100Jowan11
GB United Kingdom≈67 est.≈1 in 975K—Jowan50
SE Sweden421 in 243K42Jowan9
DK Denmark331 in 178K28——
AT Austria≈19 est.≈1 in 461K3Jowan4
NO Norway≈12 est.≈1 in 450K38—4

244 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Jowan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait

    Also written Jõwäñ

32 further groups 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Jowan,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Jowan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182#33,752
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—100#4,406
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202062#33,752
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—42#15,376
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#13,871
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—31#15,355
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—28#3,521
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202022—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201920—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201220—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200920—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200820—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jowan mean, and where does it come from?
A male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Jowan a male or female name?
Jowan 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.
How do you pronounce Jowan?
A machine transcription gives /dʒwɑn/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Jowan?
In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Jowan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 244 people named Jowan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jowan.
Where is Jowan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jowan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 173 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jowan?
In the United States, the national register counted 244 people named Jowan in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Jowan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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