Alternate forms for the name John

Other language forms for the name John:

• Chon
• Dzon, Džon (Congolese, Serbian)
• Ean (Manx)
• Eoin (Irish)
• Evan (Welsh)
• Giannina (a female's name) (Italian)
• Gioann (West-Lombard)
• Giovanni, Gianni (Italian)
• Giuàn (Emiliano-Romagnolo)
• Gjoni or Gjin (Albanian)
• Hans (Dutch, German, from Johannes)
• Hannes (German, from Johannes)
• Hone (Māori) ^[1]
• Honza (Czech)
• Hovanes or Hovannes (Armenian)
• Ian (English)
• Iain (Scottish Gaelic—common form, though Ian is used in English)
• Ianto (Welsh)
• Ibane (Basque)
• Ifan (Welsh)
• Ioan (Romanian, Welsh)
• Ioane (Samoan)
• Ioannis (Greek)
• Ion (Romanian)
• Ionel (Romanian)
• Ieuan (Welsh)
• Ivan (Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic language nations)
• Jaan (Estonian)
• Jack
• Jan (Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian)
• Ján (Slovak)
• Jani (Finnish)
• Janez (Slovene)
• Jānis (Latvian)
• Janka (Slovak, Hungarian)
• Janek (Czech)
• Janne (Finnish)
• János (Hungarian)
• Jean (French)
• Jens (Danish)
• Joan (Catalan)
• Jóannes (Faroese)
• João (Portuguese)
• Johan (Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Faroese, Afrikaans)
• Johann (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
• Johannes (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
• Jóhannes (Icelandic)
• Jon (basque)
• ジョン (Japanese)
• Jón
• Jonas (Lithuanian)
• Jovan (Serbian)
• Juan (Spanish, Filipino, Manx)
• Juhani (Finnish)
• Jöns (Swedish)^[2]
• Nelu (Romanian)
• Seán (Irish Seán, after the French Jean)
• Shane (Anglicised form of Seán)
• Shaun (American form of Sean)
• Shawn (Anglicised form of Seán)
• Siôn (Welsh)
• Sione (Tongan)
• Soane (Tongan)
• Xoán (Galician)
• Yahya (Arabic, Turkish, Persian for the baptist)
• Yan (Indonesian)
• Yanka (Belarusian)
• Yann (Breton)
• Yiannis (Greek)
• Vanya (Russian, Ukrainian)
• Yohannan (Malayalam)
• Yohannes (Ethiopian)
• Yohan, Yohanes (Indonesian, Malaysian)
• Yohan (Sinhalese, Sri Lankan)
• 요한 (Korean)
• Yonnachan (Malayalam)
• youhanna (Arabic, Persian (for John the apostle))
• Youhannon (Malayalam)
• 約翰 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Protestant translation)
• 若望 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Catholic Church translation)
• 強 (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, colloquial transliteration based on English; literally "strong")
• Zane

See also

• All pages beginning with "John"
• Jane (given name) – other variants of the female form
• John (given name)
• Jonathan (name) – unrelated but similar name

References