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Jaan

#12,767 in 2025Boys' name

Form of John

Jaan has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #12,767 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Jaan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaan means

Jaan is a form of John.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jaan is used in Estonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjɑːn/ for Jaan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jaan → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John and Johannes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 151 boys were recorded with the name Jaan between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,623 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,735 in 2020 to #12,767 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,767
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaan was born before 2009 — so the typical Jaan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Jaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,032
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2006 (12)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,623
2006

Spellings of Jaan

Jaan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 44.7% against Jaan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jaan around the world

Where Jaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1949–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,032
Best rank ever
#6,623
2006
Peak year
2006
12 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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