Given name & surname

Januš

Januš is a masculine given name from Hungarian. It is used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian.

Original HungarianJános

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Januš comes from Hungarian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Januš developed from János.

Januš’s family of names

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Januš developed from the Hungarian form János. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Januš has a related form in Jȃnjoš. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Januš has a related form in Jȃnjuš.

Walk Januš’s family in the name graph

JanušJanusJanúšJȃnjušJȃnjošJȃnošJohnJanuszJanezJánosJȃnuš

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 5

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 3

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

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