Alternate forms for the name John
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Other language forms for the name John:
- Chon
- Dzon, Džon (Congolese, Serbian)
- Ean (Manx)
- Eoin (Irish)
- Evan (Welsh)
- Giannina (a female's name) (Italian)
- Gioann (West-Lombard)
- Giovanni, Gianni (Italian)
- Giuàn (Emiliano-Romagnolo)
- Gjoni or Gjin (Albanian)
- Hans (Dutch, German, from Johannes)
- Hannes (German, from Johannes)
- Hone (Māori) [1]
- Honza (Czech)
- Hovanes or Hovannes (Armenian)
- Iain (Scottish Gaelic—common form, though Ian is used in English)
- Ianto (Welsh)
- Ibane (Basque)
- Ifan (Welsh)
- Ioan (Romanian, Welsh)
- Ioannis
- Ion (Romanian)
- Ionel (Romanian)
- Ieuan (Welsh)
- Ivan (Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic language nations)
- Jaan (Estonian)
- Jack
- Jan (Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian)
- Ján (Slovak)
- Jani (Finnish)
- Janez (Slovene)
- Jānis (Latvian)
- Janka (Slovak, Hungarian)
- Janek (Czech)
- Janne (Finnish)
- János (Hungarian)
- Jean (French)
- Jens (Danish)
- Joan (Catalan)
- João (Portuguese)
- Johan (Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Faroese, Afrikaans)
- Johann (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
- Johannes (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
- Jóhannes (Icelandic)
- Jon (basque)
- ジョン (Japanese)
- Jón
- Jonas (Lithuanian)
- Jovan (Serbian)
- Juan (Spanish, Filipino, Manx)
- Juhani (Finnish)
- Jöns (Swedish)[2]
- Nelu (Romanian)
- Seán (Irish Seán, after the French Jean)
- Shane (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Shaun (American form of Sean)
- Shawn (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Siôn (Welsh)
- Xoán (Galician)
- Yahya (Arabic, Turkish, Farsi for the baptist)
- Yan (Indonesian)
- Yanka (Belarusian)
- Yann (Breton)
- Yoannis (Greek)
- Vanya (Russian, Ukrainian)
- Yohannan (Malayalam)
- Yohannes (Ethiopian)
- Yohan, Yohanes (Indonesian, Malaysian)
- Yohan (Sinhalese, Sri Lankan)
- Yonnachan (Malayalam)
- youhanna (Arabic, Farsi (Persian) (for John the apostle))
- Youhannon (Malayalam)
- 約翰 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Protestant translation)
- 若望 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Catholic Church translation)
- 強 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, colloquial transliteration based on English; literally "strong")
- Zane
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with John
- Jane (given name) – other variants of the female form
- John (given name)
- Jonathan (name) – unrelated but similar name
References
- ^ "Whakapapa Club | Maori Genealogy Research @ whakapapa.maori.org.nz – Lists of Names for Whakapapa – Genealogy: Maori / English Name Translations". Whakapapa.maori.org.nz. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ Svenska Akademiens ordbok (Spalt J 502 band 13, 1934 ed.). 1934. Retrieved 28 June 2016.