Given name & surname
Jann
“God is gracious”
Jann has a related form in Jan. In Slavic use, Jan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Original GermanJan
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jann has a related form in Jan. In Slavic use, Jan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1932. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jann through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,281
- 143 boys · 2,138 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 141 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,559 as a first name in 2020; 568 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jann’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Jann has a related form in John. In German usage, Jann has a related form in Jan. Jann has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jan.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Jann
- Jann MardenboroughBritish racing driverborn 1991
- Jann ArdenCanadian singer-songwriterborn 1962
- Jann WennerAmerican magazine founderborn 1946
- JannPolish singer-songwriterborn 1999
- Jann SjursenDanish politicianborn 1963
- Jann GeorgeGerman footballerborn 1992
- Jann HaworthAmerican artist (born 1942)
- Jann TurnerSouth African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter (born 1964)
- Jann JensenDanish football player and managerborn 1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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