Javan - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. ja-van, jav-an ] The boy name Javan is pronounced as JHahVAAN ^KEY. Javan is mainly used in English and it is of Hebrew origin. Biblical name derived from the element 'yavan' with the meaning Greece. Yavan is known as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general. The name was borne by Javan, the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth, who according to the historian Flavius Josephus, was the ancestor of the Greek people. The English names Javin and Javon are variant forms of the name.

Javan is not popular as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Javan, the English Javon was the most frequently used.

Baby names that sound like Javan include the English Jeven, the name Jibben, the English Jivan, the English Jiven, the English Jivin, the name Joben, the Lapp Jofan, the Slavic Jovan, the English Jovani, the English Jovanni, the English Jovanny, the English Jovany, the English Giovanny, the Italian Giovanni, the Italian Giovannino, and the Italian Giuseppino.

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