Jan

A male given name, form of John. A female given name, form of Janet.

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Jan (Persian: جان‎‎) or Jaan (pronounced like John) is a Persian word originally meaning 'life' and 'soul', also used as a name with extended meanings 'beloved one' or 'dear'. In Farsi, it's often added to the end of a given name as a means of conveying affection, for example Ahmad Jan (dear Ahmad). It is also added to the end of the words for aunt or uncle, for example "Amoo jan" (Dear uncle). It is also often used as part of the names referring to grandmothers or grandfathers, such as Khanoom jan and Agha jan (Dear lady and Dear sir), as the first names of grandparents are never used as a sign of respect. Whenever "Jan" is used in Farsi, it implies a certain degree of closeness, familiarity, and affection. However, "Jan" is never added to the end of a surname (family name). Sometimes, "jan" is also used as a sign or exasperation, in the same way as "My dear lady" or "My dear sir" can be used in English. Being of Iranian origin, it is often used as a proper name in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Urdu-speaking India, Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan, Central Asia and other areas influenced by Iranian and Persian culture. It can also be used as a part of a name, for example Janbakhsh (he who grants life).

Ján is a Slovak form of the name John.

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Form of Johannes, Janet, Janice: God is gracious, merciful, gracious.

Anja, Ifan, Ioane, Johann, Joan, Jovan, Ian, Jackson, Juan, Johannes, Yahya, Jane, John, Ioan, Jonne, Hannes, Shane, Giovanni, Janez, Joanna, Ivan, Evan, Yohannes, Hans, Johanna, Jaan, Hovhannes, Iven, Juhani, Janka, Johanan, Jean, Johan, Jack

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Jan Koum	1976	American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
2	Jan Oblak	1993	Slovenian footballer
3	Jan Hooks	1957	Actress, comedian
4	Jan Hus	1369	Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university educator and science writer
5	Jan van Eyck	1390	Flemish painter
6	Jan Smithers	1949	American actress
7	Jan Vertonghen	1987	Belgian footballer
8	Jan Crouch	1938	American television evangelist
9	Jan Smuts	1870	Military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa
10	Jan Levenson
11	Jan Brewer	1944	Politician, governor
12	Jan Żabiński	1897	Polish zoologist
13	Jan Leeming	1942	TV presenter, newsreader
14	Jan Kaczkowski	1977	Polish catholic priest, blogger and presbyter (1977-2016)
15	Jan Veselý	1990	Czech basketball player
16	Jan Błachowicz	1983	Polish mixed martial artist
17	Jan Kubiš	1913	Czech soldier and martyr
18	Jan Kirchhoff	1990	German (association) footballer
19	Jan Hahn	1973	German television presenter and radio host
20	Jan Leyk	1984	German disc jockey
21	Jan Koller	1973	Czech footballer
22	Jan van Riebeeck	1619	Dutch colonial governor
23	Jan Francis	1947	English actress
24	Jan Hammer	1948	Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer
25	Jan Ullrich	1973	German cyclist
26	Jan de Bont	1943	Dutch film director
27	Jan Sterling	1921	American actress
28	Jan Morris	1926	British historian
29	Jan Axel Blomberg	1969	Norwegian heavy metal drummer of the band Mayhem
30	Jan Švankmajer	1934	Czech animator, photographer and director
31	Jan Stecker	1960	German television presenter
32	Leung Jan	1826	Wing Chun Grandmaster of Yip Man, known in his time as "Wing Chun Kuen Wong" or the King of Wing Chun Fist
33	Jan Versteegh	1985
34	Jan Wieczorkowski	1972	Polish actor
35	Jan van Weyde	1979	German actor and voice actor
36	Jan Palach	1948	Student who committed suicide by self-immolation in protest
37	Jan Rouven	1978
38	Jan Hartmann	1980	German actor
39	Jan Garavaglia	1956	American forensic pathologist and coroner
40	Jan Kooijman	1981	Dutch presenter and actor
41	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	1978	Dutch footballer
42	Jan de Doot		Kidney stone patient who performed a lithotomy on himself
43	Jan Adams	1954	American plastic surgeon
44	Jan Frodeno	1981	Triathlete
45	Jan Železný	1966	Czech athlete coach, javelin thrower and sport official
46	Jan Pospieszalski	1955
47	Jan Karski	1914	Polish World War II resistance movement fighter
48	Jan Olde Riekerink	1963	Dutch footballer and manager
49	Jan Stenerud	1942	Player of American football
50	Jan Baptist van Helmont	1580	Era feliz
51	Jan Žižka	1360	Czech General
52	Jan Schlichtmann	1951	American lawyer
53	Jan Akkerman	1946	Dutch guitarist
54	Jan Odle	1964	American voice actor
55	Jan Sloot	1945	Dutch computer scientst
56	Jan Böhmermann	1981	German comedian and television-show host
57	Jan Schakowsky	1944	American politician
58	Jan Matejko	1838	Polish painter
59	Jan Ruff O'Herne	1923	Australian activist
60	Jan Egeland	1957	Norwegian diplomat and politician
61	Jan Kralitschka	1976	German model
62	Jan Ø. Jørgensen	1987	Badminton player
63	Jan Mølby	1963	Danish footballer
64	Jan Köppen	1983	German television presenter and disc jockey
65	Jan Eliasson	1940	Swedish politician
66	Jan Kulczyk	1950	Polish businessman
67	Jan Brueghel the Elder	1568	Flemish painter
68	Jan Garbarek	1947	Norwegian saxophonist
69	Jan Nedvěd	1946	Czech composer, guitarist and singer
70	Jan Fleischhauer	1962	German journalist
71	Jan Jaap van der Wal	1979	Dutch television presenter, columnist, writer, presenter and cabaret artist
72	Jan Peter Balkenende	1956	Dutch politician
73	Jan Karon	1937	American novelist, children's writer, non-fiction writer
74	Jan Steen	1626	Painter from the Northern Netherlands
75	Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1852	Surinamese inventor
76	Jan Nisar Akhtar	1914	Urdu language poet
77	Jan Kuehnemund	1961	Vixen founder and guitarist
78	Jan Weiler	1967	German journalist and writer
79	Orya Maqbool Jan		Pakistani journalist
80	Jan Suzin	1930
81	Jan Murray	1916	American actor and comedian
82	Jan Clayton	1917	American actress
83	Jan Ravens	1958	British comedian
84	Jan Matthys	1500	Dutch Anabaptist leader
85	Jan Magnussen	1973	Danish racing driver
86	Jan Oort	1900	Dutch astronomer
87	Jan Holden	1931	British actress
88	Jan Janszoon	1570	Pirate
89	Jan Masaryk	1886	Czech politician
90	Jan Tschichold	1902	German graphic designer
91	Jan Boellaard	1952	Dutch criminal
92	Jan Ceulemans	1957	Belgian footballer
93	Jan Tadeusz Duda	1949
94	Jan Gehl	1936	Danish architect and urban designer (b.1936)
95	Jan Młynarski	1979
96	Jan Evangelista Purkyně	1787	Czech member of Czech council, biologist, physiologist, doctor and inventor
97	Jan Guillou	1944	Swedish author
98	Lalak Jan	1967	Pakistani soldier
99	Jan Arnald	1963	Swedish novelist and literary critic
100	Jan Stekelenburg	1941	Dutch television presenter and presenter
101	Jan Spitzer	1947	German actor and voice actor
102	Jan Tinbergen	1903	Dutch economist
103	Jan Gies	1905	Dutch Resistance member; Dutch Righteous Among the Nations; World War II humanitarian
104	Jan Howard	1930	American musician, actress
105	Jan Fabre	1958	Artist, choreographer, designer, playwright, stage director
106	Jan Åge Fjørtoft	1967	Norwegian footballer
107	Jan Ingenhousz	1730	Dutch physiologist
108	Jan Finney		American martial artist
109	Jan Holoubek	1978	Polish actor
110	Jan Harvey	1947	British actress
111	Jan Ammann	1975	German musician
112	Jan Maria Jackowski	1958	Polish politician, writer and historian
113	Jan Révai	1974	Czech actor and dancer
114	Jan Stephenson	1951	Professional golfer
115	Jan Merlin	1925	American actor and writer
116	Jan Cousteau	1939	Wife of undersea explorer Philippe Cousteau
117	Jan Čenský	1961	Czech dabing actor, actor and presenter
118	Jan Gustafsson	1979	German chess grandmaster
119	Jan Schweiterman	1972	American actor
120	Jan Becker	1975	German writer
121	Jan Hoag	1948	American actress
122	Jan Henryk Dąbrowski	1755	Polish general
123	Jan Kerouac	1952	Writer
124	Jan Shutan	1932	American actor
125	Jan Dismas Zelenka	1679	Czech composer
126	Jan Kliment	1974
127	Jan Kodeš	1946	Czechoslovakian tennis player
128	Jan Verhaas	1966	Dutch snooker referee
129	Jan Moir	1958	British journalist
130	Jan Monczka	1956	Polish actor
131	Jan Saudek	1935	Czech photographer
132	Jan Lisiecki	1995	Canadian pianist
133	Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck	1562	Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue
134	Jan Kaczmarek	1945
135	Jan Slagter	1954	Dutch television presenter
136	Jan Pieterszoon Coen	1587	Dutch colonial governor
137	Jan Brett	1949	American children's illustrator and writer
138	Jan Panczak	1976	German voice actor
139	Jan Żaryn	1958
140	Jan Serfontein	1993	South African rugby union player
141	Jan Kaplický	1937	Czech architect and designer
142	Jan Neruda	1834	Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer
143	Jan Łukasiewicz	1878	Polish logician and philosopher
144	Jan Wróbel	1964	Polish historian
145	Jan Witold Moll	1912	Polish physician
146	Jan Pearson	1959	British actress
147	Jan Werich	1905	Czech actor, playwright and writer
148	Jan Přeučil	1937	Czech actor
149	Jan Potocki	1761	Polish nobleman, soldier and scholar
150	Jan Chappell	1949	British actress
151	Jan T. Gross	1947	American historian and sociologist
152	Jan Crawford	1965	American journalist and lawyer
153	Jan Toorop	1858	Dutch-Indonesian painter
154	Jan Rubes	1920	Czech opera singer and actor
155	Jan Kromkamp	1980	Dutch footballer
156	Jan Miner	1917	American actress
157	Jan Hojer	1992	German rock climber
158	Jan du Plessis	1954	Businessman
159	Jan Davidsz. de Heem	1606	Painter from the Northern Netherlands
160	Jan Maxwell	1956	American actress
161	Jan Ladislav Dussek	1760	Czech composer and pianist
162	Jan Nortje	1975	South African boxer
163	Jan Wagner	1971	German author and translator
164	Jan Kochanowski	1530	Polish poet
165	Jan Lammers	1956	Dutch racing driver
166	Jan Grabiec	1972
167	Jan Assmann	1938	German egyptologist
168	Jan Hoekema	1952	Dutch politician
169	Ján Greguš	1991	Slovak soccer player
170	Jan A. P. Kaczmarek	1953	Polish composer
171	Jan Dijkgraaf	1962	Dutch journalist
172	Jan Wouters	1960	Dutch footballer
173	Jan Pinkava	1963	Czech animator and director
174	Jan Grzebski	1942	Polish coma patient
175	Jan Skrzek	1953	Polish musician
176	Jan Niklas Berg	1988	German actor
177	Jan Velička	1985	Czech pornstar
178	Jan Swammerdam	1637	Dutch entomologist
179	Jan Lityński	1946
180	Jan Śpiewak	1908
181	Jan Krasicki	1919
182	Jan Müller-Michaelis	1977
183	Jan Lenferink	1948	Dutch television presenter / host
184	Jan van Cauwelaert	1914	Roman Catholic bishop
185	Jan Blaaser	1922	Dutch actor and cabaret artist
186	Jan Boelhouwer	1950	Dutch politician
187	Jan Plewka	1970	German actor
188	Jan de Vries	1965	Dutch politician
189	Jan Baalsrud	1917	Norwegian SOE personnel
190	Jan Gossaert	1478	Flemish painter
191	Dejan Zavec	1976	Slovenian boxer
192	Jan Peerce	1904	American opera singer
193	Jan Malmsjö	1932	Swedish singer and actor
194	Jan Schinkelshoek	1953	Dutch politician
195	Jan Pluta	1953
196	Jan Marcussen		American writer
197	Jan van Zijl	1952	Dutch politician
198	Jan Smit	1985	Dutch singer and TV presenter
199	Jan Anthonie Bruijn	1958	Dutch physician, university professor and politician
200	Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn	1556	Dutch sailor