Given name & surname · also Old French
St. John
St. John is a masculine given name from Old French.
Meaning & origin
The story
As a given name, St. John was taken from the surname.
St. John’s family of names
In English usage, St. John has a related form in St John.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named St. John
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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