Given name & surname · Japanese
ジョン
“God is gracious”
ジョン (Jon) is a masculine given name from English. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Japanese kana script. In English: John.
Meaning & origin
What it means
ジョン goes back to a word meaning “God is gracious.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ジョン’s family of names
In Japanese usage, ジョン has a conventional equivalent in the English form John. In Japanese usage, ジョン has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean. In Japanese usage, ジョン has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jan.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
ジョン has relatives in 33 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.
Englishwhere ジョン comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 66
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Johnsource · English
- GiannaItalian
- IanScots
- GiovanniItalian
- JuanTagalog, Spanish
- IvanSerbo-Croatian, Slovene
- GianniItalian
- JohanFinnish, Norwegian
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- JonasLithuanian
- JoanCatalan
- GiovannaItalian
- JeanFrench
- HansGerman, Danish
- JovanSerbo-Croatian
- JohannGerman
- JohannesFinnish, Norwegian
- VannaItalian
- JanCzech, Polish
- EoinIrish
- JensNorwegian, Danish
- IonRomanian, Basque
- YannBreton
- IainScots
- IoanRomanian, Welsh
- IwanPolish
- HannesFinnish
- IeuanWelsh
- イワンRussian
- イヴァンRussian
- イヨハネスLatin
- ヨハネLatin
- ヨハネスLatin, German
- IoannesLatin
- JoãoPortuguese
- GiônVietnamese
- ジャンFrench
- HannuFinnish
- JussiFinnish
- JuhaniFinnish
- JuhanaFinnish
- JuhaFinnish
- JánosHungarian
- ManexBasque
- ManesBasque
- JohanesBasque
- ハンスGerman, Danish
- ヨハンGerman
- ヤンDanish, Dutch
- 約翰Chinese
- 约翰Chinese
- ИванSerbo-Croatian
- ЈованSerbo-Croatian
- JanezSlovene
- ホアンSpanish
- SeathanScots
- EòinScots
- JönsSwedish
- ΤζωνGreek
- ΤζονGreek
- ΓιάννηςGreek
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