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Jann

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Yahweh is gracious, through John

Jann has been given to 2,281 babies in the U.S. since 1932. 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 1956, with 136 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Jann, 1991

1 in 649,000

Jann over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jann over time

In 2024, Jann went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19322024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jann: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through John

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

What Jann means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Jann is used in Faroese and 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, Jann is pronounced /janː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,138 girls were recorded with the name Jann between 1932 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1956; its best national rank was #812 in 1953.

In the United States, 143 boys were recorded with the name Jann between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,390 in 1957.

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 Jann?

Jann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 649,000
6 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 312,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,730 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jann sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 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 449,730 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jann was born before 1956 — so the typical Jann is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,743
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (1,080).

Is Jann 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (136)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#812
1953

Spellings of Jann

Jann is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 13.8% against Jann's 0.03%.

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 Jann is used

Across 1910–2025, Jann was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 141,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 33,333
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 100,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jann around the world

Where Jann 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.

  • France
    2005–2010
    #3,950
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1944–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jann

People whose public names include Jann, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jann by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#812
1953
Peak year
1956
136 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
2,138
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,390
1957
Peak year
2004
13 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jann

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

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Names with a curve like Jann

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jann, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CatheyJoetteBrindaGwendaSheilahPameliaCheryllPamellaDremaGlindaCindaMerrie

Sibling names for Jann

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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