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Appendix:Variations of "jan" English Etymology 1 Proper noun en Q108 en January<id:Q108>. en Jan.<id:Q108> JAN<id:Q108> en Feb<id:Q109> Mar<id:Q110> Apr<id:Q118> May<id:Q119> Jun<id:Q120> Jul<id:Q121> Aug<id:Q122> Sep/Sept<id:Q123> Oct<id:Q124> Nov<id:Q125> Dec<id:Q126> en male Dutch. Translations abbreviation of January Afrikaans: af Jan. Albanian: sq jan Amharic: am ጃን Armenian: hy հնվ Azerbaijani: az yan Basque: eu urt. Belarusian: be сту Bengali: bn জানু Bulgarian: bg яну, bg ян. Burmese: my ဇန် Catalan: ca gen. Czech: cs led Danish: da jan. Dutch: nl jan m Estonian: et jaan Finnish: fi tammi, fi tammik. French: fr janv. Galician: gl xan. Georgian: ka იან. German: de Jan. Greek: el Ιαν Hebrew: he ינו׳ yanu' Hindi: hi जन॰ Hungarian: hu jan. Icelandic: is jan. Indonesian: id Jan Italian: it gen., it gen Kannada: kn ಜನ Kazakh: kk қаң. Kyrgyz: ky янв. Latvian: lv janv. Lithuanian: lt saus. Macedonian: mk јан. Malay: ms Jan Malayalam: ml ജനു Norwegian: Bokmål: nb jan. Polish: pl sty Portuguese: pt jan. m Punjabi: pa ਜਨ Romanian: ro ian. Russian: ru янв. Scottish Gaelic: gd Faoi Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh јан m Latin: sh jan m, sh sij m Croatia Slovak: sk jan, sk jan. Slovene: sl jan. Spanish: es ene., es ene Swahili: sw Jan Swedish: sv jan., sv jan Tagalog: tl Ene., tl Ene Tamil: ta ஜன. Telugu: te జన Thai: th ม.ค. Turkish: tr Oca Ukrainian: uk січ. Uzbek: uz yan Welsh: cy Ion m Etymology 2 From en fro Jehan John. en John. Pronunciation jăn en /d͡ʒæn/ RP,GA en /d͡ʒan/ SSB,Northern England,Scotland,Wales en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jan.wav Southern England en /d͡ʒɛn/ NZ en æn 1 Proper noun en dated en male Hebrew. Etymology 3 A clipping or hypochoristic form of en Janet, en Janice, en Janine, en Janis, etc. en Ivanka Janelle Janet Janey Janine Jeanette Jeanie Jeannette Jeannine Jen Jenna Jenny Jessie Jo Jody Juanita Shanae Sinead Vanna. Pronunciation jăn, en /d͡ʒæn/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jan.wav Southern England en æn 1 Proper noun en female. en 1899 Paul Leicester Ford Janice Meredith 1 "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend. en 2008 w:Stephen King Just after Sunset Simon and Schuster 2009 1416586652 129 She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie? en Jordan Valinsky Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’ w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/food/chilis-restaurant-scranton-the-office 2025-03-26 Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer). https://web.archive.org/web/20250416211900/https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/food/chilis-restaurant-scranton-the-office/ Derived terms en not happy, Jan sure, Jan Etymology 4 From various European languages, ultimately from en la Johannes. Pronunciation en /jɑːn/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Pvanp7-Jan (-jɑn-).wav UK en /jæn/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yan.wav Southern England en ɑːn æn 1 en yarn<aa:non-rhotic> Proper noun en male John. en John D. Sutter Welcome to the world’s nicest prison w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bastoy-nicest/index.html 2012-05-24 Jan Petter Vala is serving part of a 10-year murder sentence on a posh island in southern Norway. https://web.archive.org/web/20260726080340/https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bastoy-nicest/index.html 26 July 2026 Derived terms en Janson Anagrams en ajn JNA Jna. en 1-syllable words clippings female given names from French female given names from Hebrew diminutives of female given names diminutives of female given names female given names heteronyms male given names unisex given names Czech Pronunciation cs Cs-Jan.ogg cs an 1 Etymology 1 cs :inh zlw-ocs:Jan 2 1 Proper noun m-an Janův Honza,Janek,Janeček,Jenda,Jeník,Jeníček Jana,Janička cs male John Declension m.an.nomplové:i.voc:Jane:Jene Further reading Etymology 2 Proper noun cs proper noun form cs Jana gen p Danish Proper noun da proper noun da male John in the 20th century Related terms (surnames) da Jansen da Jens and its variants References Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 46 783 males with the given name Jan have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011. Dutch Alternative forms nl jan Etymology From nl dum jan, from nl la Iōhannēs, from nl grc Ἰωάννης, from nl he יוֹחָנָן. Shortening of nl Johannes. Pronunciation nl /jɑn/ nl Nl-Jan.ogg nl Jan nl ɑn 1 Proper noun m nl male John Derived terms nl boven Jan zijn Jan en alleman janboerenlul Jan Boerenfluitjes Jan Boezeroen jandoedel Jan en alleman Jan en klein Piereke Jan Fuselier jangort janhagel Jan Klaassen Jan Lubbes janmaat Jan met de pet Jan Modaal Jansen Jan Soldaat Jan Rap Jantje, jantje jantje-van-leiden liever blode Jan dan dode Jan voor Jan Lul voor Jan met de korte achternaam Related terms variants nl Jannes, nl Jantje, nl Johan, nl Johannes feminine form nl Janneke, nl Jannie, nl Jannetje, nl Jantje, nl Johanna surnames nl Jans, nl Janse, nl Jansen, nl Jansse, nl Janssen, nl Jansz Further reading Faroese Proper noun fo proper noun m fo male Usage notes m Jansson Jansdóttir Declension Jan Jan Jani Jans German Alternative forms de Jaan Jahn Jann rare Etymology de gml la grc he From Central and de nds - dialects. Modern use may have been reinforced by related Germanic and Slavic forms. Pronunciation de /jan/ seldom also /jaːn/ de De-Jan.ogg de De-Jan2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de an aːn 1 Proper noun m,s:-[with an article] de male Johann, popular in the later 20th century Derived terms de Dummerjan Liederjan Related terms de Hannes Hans Jannes Johannes Indonesian Proper noun id proper noun id Januari January id Feb Mar Apr Mei Jun Jul Agu Sep Okt Nov Des Limburgish Alternative forms li Janne Eupen li Jean li Jón li Sjeng li Schäng Eupen Proper noun li proper noun m li male John See also li Hans Malay Proper noun ms proper noun ms Januari January ms Feb Mac Apr Mei Jun Jul Ogo Sep Okt Nov Dis Norwegian Bokmål Jan (name),no:Jan Alternative forms nb Jahn, nb Jann Etymology nb nl Jan male given name and nb fy Jan male given name in the eighteenth century. Both are contracted forms corresponding to nb Johannes. The name ultimately derives from nb la Iohannes, from nb grc-koi Ἰωάννης Iōánnēs, from nb hbo יְהוֹחָנָן Yəhōḥānān Yahweh is gracious. nb Jon male given name, the older traditional Norwegian form. Compare da Jan, sv Jan, de Jan, pl Jan and cs Jan male given name. Pronunciation nb /jɑːn/ nb ɑːn 1 nb Jahn nb Jan Proper noun nb proper noun nb male Dutch < Latin < Koine Greek < Biblical Hebrew,West Frisian < Latin < Koine Greek < Biblical Hebrew Johannes John Usage notes The Norwegian name day for nb Jan is 24 September. The use of nb Jan increased sharply from the 1920s. More than four percent of boys born annually from 1940 through 1964 received the name, and it ranked first among boys' names from 1940 through 1973. Its one-syllable form made nb Jan particularly common as the first element of double given names, such as nb Jan nb Ivar and nb Jan nb Helge. During the nineteenth century, the name was most strongly represented in Hordaland and Bergen. Derived terms nb Jana partly a female derivative nb Janna female derivative nb Janne female derivative; male pet form nb Jannik diminutive nb Jansen patronymic surname, originally “son of Jan” nb Jansdatter historical patronymic, “daughter of Jan” Statistics According to Statistics Norway, 43,472 men in Norway had nb Jan as their sole or first given name as of 31 December 2025.Table 10501: Persons, by girls' name and boys' name, Statistics Norway. References “Jan” in Store norske leksikon. Kristoffer Kruken and Ola Stemshaug, Norsk personnamnleksikon, 3rd edition, Det Norske Samlaget, 2013. “Jan” at Nordic Names. Anagrams nb nja Old Czech Alternative forms zlw-ocs Ján Etymology zlw-ocs :bor la:Iōannēs 1 1 Pronunciation Proper noun m-pr Jěnek,Jěník zlw-ocs male John Declension m.pr.voc:Jěne.nompl:Jěni:Janové.locpl:Jěniech Descendants cs Jan References + Polish pl: Etymology pl :lbor la-lat:Iōhannēs + 1 Pronunciation Pl-Jan.ogg Proper noun m-pr Janek,Jaś,Jasiek,Jasio,Janko pl male Late Latin < Koine Greek < Biblical Hebrew John Declension Janowie Further reading Slovene sl: Pronunciation ján sl ján Etymology 1 Ultimately from sl la-lat Iōhannēs. Proper noun Ján m-an Jána sl male Late Latin < Koine Greek < Biblical Hebrew John Janko Declension Ján 1 Related terms sl Jančar Jančič Janez Janež Janko Janša Janšič Janus Januš Janža Janžekovič Janžič Further reading Etymology 2 Proper noun sl proper nounf Ján sl Jána gen d ; gen p Swahili Proper noun sw proper noun sw Januari January sw Feb Mac Apr Mei Jun Jul Ago Sep Okt Nov Des Swedish Etymology Contraction of sv Johan John. Recorded in Sweden since the 17th century. Pronunciation sv [ˈjɑːn] sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Jan.wav Proper noun c sv male Usage notes Common first part of hyphenated names such as Jan-Erik or Jan-Olof. Related terms sv Johannes and its variants (surname) sv Jansson References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 129 738 males with the given name Jan living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011. Anagrams sv ajn nja Turkish Etymology tr :bor<conj:and> ady:джан<t:sharp, great> kbd:жан<t:sharp, smart> + 1 Proper noun tr male West Circassian, popular among Circassians in Turkey.