Jahn

Boys' name

Yahweh is gracious, through John

Jahn has been given to 385 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Jahn, 2024

1 in 557,000

Jahn over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jahn: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through John

Biblical Hebrew, Dutch, Koine Greek, Latin and West Frisian

What Jahn means

Jahn belongs to the name family reached through Jahn → John → Jon. Its meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jahn is used in Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew, Dutch, Koine Greek, Latin and West Frisian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John, Jan and Jon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Jahn is pronounced /jɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 385 boys were recorded with the name Jahn between 1918 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,610 in 1969.

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 Jahn?

Jahn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jahn 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahn was born before 1995 — so the typical Jahn is around 30 today.

Median birth year: 1995; About 30 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 44.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 375; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Jahn 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (16)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,610; 1969

Spellings of Jahn

Jahn is not the most common spelling — John is, with 58.1% against Jahn's <0.01%.

John58.1%5,182,633
Jason11.8%1,052,030
Jack8.5%756,943
Juan4.1%365,606
Ian2.9%257,664
Jay2.2%195,548
Jon1.9%168,142
Jake1.5%129,322

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.

Where Jahn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jahn was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jahn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jahn around the world

Where Jahn 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.

Norway
1880–1999
#537
in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Jahn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,610; 1969
Peak year: 2005; 16 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 385
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jahn

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

Jahi Jahad Jahki Jah Jahel Jahid Jahan Jahson Jahzir Jahmai Jahaan Jahvon Jahsai Jahmeir Jahkai Jahsir Jahmier Jahlani Jahkeem Jaheir Jahseh Jahkari Jahsi Jahred

Sibling names for Jahn

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

For a sister

Yahaira Pilar Anisa Yajaira Anjali Anneliese Annalisa Abigayle

For a brother

Braulio Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon Tye Deshaun

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