Given name
Iohannes
Iohannes is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Iohannes comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης, from Biblical Hebrew יוחנן.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Iohannes’s family of names
In Latin usage, Iohannes has a later derivative in Juan. In Filipino usage, Iohannes has a related form in Jean. In Latin usage, Iohannes has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Iohannes has relatives in 23 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
25 related names in 23 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Juanderivative · Spanish, nci
- Ivanequivalent
- Joandescendant · Occitan, Catalan
- Jonderivative · Basque
- Janderivative · Norwegian Bokmål
- Xuandescendant · roa-leo, Asturian
- Xandescendant · Galician
- Jannederivative · Norwegian Bokmål
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- GjonAlbanian
- Иванequivalent
- Jóhannesequivalent
- Ibánequivalent
- Ivánequivalent
- 傑克Chinese
- ДжонRussian
- Iehanderivative · Middle French
- Xohándescendant · Galician
- Zuandescendant · Friulian
- Xoándescendant · Galician
- Chuandescendant · Aragonese
- Juanoderivative · Spanish
- Ġwannderivative · Maltese
- Ioannesequivalent
- Іванequivalent
- Իվանequivalent
People named Iohannes
- Johann Julius WalbaumGerman physician, naturalist and taxonomist (1724-1799)
- Johannes Teutonicus ZemekeGerman canon lawyer, glossator and professor (died 1245)1200–1245
- Flavius Iohannes Vincomaluspolitician450
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