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 [ 1 syll. jan, ja-n ] The girl name Jan is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being slightly more popular. It is pronounced JHAEN KEY. Jan has its origins in the Hebrew language and it is used largely in English. The name is derived as a contracted form of Janice, Janet, and other names starting with 'Jan-'. See Jan for more info. A form of the name is the English, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian Janna. Jan is a short form of the English Janet. Jan is also a form of the English Jane. Jan is also a short form of the English Janice. Another form of Jan is the English spelling variant Jann. See also the related forms, the Czech, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Slavic, and Latvian Jana, the English Jancis, and the English, German, Polish, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Scandinavian Janina. Jan is rare as a baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1956, 0.155% of baby girls were named Jan. It had a ranking of #136 then. The baby name has substantially dropped in popularity since then, and is of only irregular use today. In 2008, out of the family of girl names directly related to Jan, the English Jane was the most commonly used. Although there were times from 1930 to 1983 that Jan was more popular with girls, today it is somewhat used more commonly as a boy name. Baby names that sound like Jan include the English Jann, the Finnish, German, and Scandinavian Janne, the English Jaine, the English Jane, the English Janeann, the English Jasme, the English Jayne, the English and Scottish Jean, the English Jeane, the English Jeanene, the English, French, and Dutch Jeanne, the English Jeanné, the English Jem, the English Jen, the English Jenae, the English Jenn, the English Jenne, the Chinese and English Jin, the English Joan, and the Basque and English Jone. KEY: Pronunciation for Jan: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"   |
