The name "John" has equivalents in more than 100 different languages (and plenty even in English)
The name "John" has equivalents in more than 100 different languages (and plenty even in English)
It started with Yochanan (Hebrew) -> Ioannis (Greek) -> Johannes (Mediaeval Latin) -> Jon (Middle English), but now every language seems to have a version, e.g.
- Hans
- Joanna
- Hanna
- Jan
- Ivan/Ivanka
- Vanja
- Jens
- Sean/Shaun/Shawn/Shane
- Joan/Jane/Jean/Janis
- Evan/Ewan
- Jock/Jack
- Ian/Iain/Ianto
- Juan
- Yiannis/Gianna
- Gianni/Giovanni/Vanni/Giovanna
- Jonas
- Ivo/Iva
- Eoin/Owen
- Seonaid/Siubhan
and those are just the ones I've heard used, there are hundreds more!
I guess Everyone is John knew all along
That looks like a blast
Does that mean John Hannah is really just "Jon Jon" ?
Jacob is similar. It is derived from an old Hebrew names and there are a ton of variants (including James and Diego)
Jean, maybe even Yann, which might be a Breton (from brittany) version of John.
There's also a bunch of female names taken from the various forms of John, like Juana or Jeanne in Spanish and French