Alternate forms for the name John
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Other language forms for the name John:
- Ohan (Armenian)
- Yahya (Turkish)
- Chon
- Dzon, (Congolese, Serbian)
- Ean (Manx)
- Eóin (Irish)
- Evan (Welsh)
- (Basque)
- (Vietnamese, Protestant[1])
- (Italian)
- (Vietnamese, Catholic[2])
- (West-Lombard)
- Giovanni, Gianni (Italian)
- (Emiliano-Romagnolo)
- Gjoni or Gjin (Albanian)
- Hans (Dutch, German, Swedish from Johannes)
- Hannes (German from Johannes)
- Hannu (Finnish)
- Hoani (Māori) [3]
- Hone (Māori) [4]
- Honza (Czech)
- Hovanes or Hovannes (Armenian)
- Ian (English)
- Iain (Scottish Gaelic—common form, though Ian is used in English)
- Ianto (Welsh)
- , Ibon (Basque)
- Ifan (Welsh)
- Ioan (Romanian, Welsh)
- (Samoan)
- Ioannis (Greek)
- Ion (Romanian, Basque)
- Ionel (Romanian)
- Ieuan (Welsh)
- Ivan (Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic language nations)
- Ivanko (Ukrainian)
- Ivo (Croatian and some other Slavic language nations)
- Jaan (Estonian)
- Jack (nickname for John; not traditionally a name in itself)
- Jan (Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian)
- Ján (Slovak)
- Jani (Finnish)
- Janez (Slovene)
- Jānis (Latvian)
- Janko (Slovak, Hungarian)
- Janek (Czech)
- Janne (Finnish)
- János (Hungarian)
- (Chuvash)
- Jean (French)
- Jens (Danish)
- Jhon (Colombian)
- Jhonas (Hebrew)
- Joan (Catalan)
- Joanes (Basque)
- Jóannes (Faroese)
- João (Portuguese)
- (Basque from Zuberoa/Soule province)
- Johan (Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Faroese, Afrikaans)
- Johann (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
- Jóhann (Icelandic, Faroese)
- Johannes (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
- Jóhannes (Icelandic)
- Jon (Basque, Norwegian)
- (Jon) (Japanese)
- Jón
- Jonas (Lithuanian, Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
- Jovan (Serbian)
- Juan (Spanish, Filipino, Manx)
- Juhan (Estonian)
- Juhani (Finnish)
- Jöns (Swedish)[5]
- (Basque)
- (Romanian)
- (Angolan)
- Seán (Irish Seán, after the French Jean)
- Shane (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Shaun (American form of Sean)
- Shawn (Anglicised form of Seán)
- (Arabic)
- Siôn (Welsh)
- Sione (Tongan)
- Soane (Tongan)
- (Cherokee) in Cherokee syllabary
- Xoán (Galician)
- Yahya (حنّا or يوحنّا in Arabic, Turkish, Persian for the baptist)
- Yan (Indonesian)
- Yanka (Belarusian)
- Yann (Breton)
- Yiannis (Greek)
- Vanya (Russian)
- Yohannan (Malayalam)
- Yohannes (Ethiopian)
- Yohan, Yohanes (Indonesian, Malaysian)
- Yohan (Sinhalese, Sri Lankan)
- (Makhuwa)
- (Korean)
- (Malayalam)
- (Arabic, Persian (for John the apostle))
- (Malayalam)
- (Mandaic)
- (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Protestant translation)
- (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Catholic Church translation)
- (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, colloquial transliteration based on English; literally "strong")
- Zane
See also[]
- All pages with titles beginning with John
- Jane (given name) – other variants of the female form
- John (given name)
- Jonathan (name) – unrelated but similar name
References[]
- ^ "Giăng". wiktionary.org.
- ^ "Gioan". wiktionary.org.
- ^ www.netvalue.nz. "Hoani - Māori Dictionary". maoridictionary.co.nz. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ "Whakapapa Club | Maori Genealogy Research @ whakapapa.maori.org.nz – Lists of Names for Whakapapa – Genealogy: Maori / English Name Translations". Whakapapa.maori.org.nz. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ Svenska Akademiens ordbok (Spalt J 502 band 13, 1934 ed.). 1934. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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