Janko - Meaning of Janko

What does Janko mean?

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Janko

[ 2 syll. jan-ko, ja-nko ] The baby boy name Janko is pronounced as YAE-NKow †. Janko is used mostly in Polish, Slavic, Dutch, and Hungarian, and its language of origin is Hebrew.

Janko is a pet form (Polish and Slavic) of Jan.

Janko is also a derivative (Dutch) of the Dutch, German, and Scandinavian name Johannes.

Janko is also a derivative (Hungarian and Polish) of the English and Hebrew name John.

See also the related categories, slavic, polish, hebrew, dutch, and hungarian.

Janko is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2018, out of the group of boy names directly related to Janko, John was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Janko include Janco, Janak, Janek, Janik, Janje, Jannes, Janosch, Janusz, Januus, János, Jedrzej, Jonas, Ewyng, Unikah, Yamqui, Yana, Yancee, Yancey, Yanci, and Yancie.

† English pronunciation for Janko: Y as in "you (Y.UW)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)"