Given name & surname · also Dutch
Yohanes
Yohanes is a masculine given name from Dutch, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Yohanes comes from Dutch, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Dutch Johannes, from Late Latin Iōhannēs, from Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yohanes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 8 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 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 315 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yohanes’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Yohanes has a conventional equivalent in the English form John. In German usage, Yohanes has a related form in Johannes. In Indonesian usage, Yohanes was borrowed from the Dutch form Johannes.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Yohanes has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yohanes
- Yohanes ChiappinelliItalian athletics competitorborn 1997
- Yohanes Harun YuwonoIndonesian Catholic archbishopborn 1964
- Yohanes GhebregergisEritrean athlete (* 1989)
- Yohanes PahabolIndonesian footballerborn 1992
- Johannes Chrysostomos Berchmans Hanssen MonteiroIndonesian Roman-Catholic priestborn 1971
- Yohanes SuryaIndonesian physicistborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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