Just so you know my name is….
For anyone and most people that don’t know my real name is “John” not “jon” but that’s another story. Just thought I would share all these different versions of the name. You should try it and RT!
Other language forms
- Ean (Manx)
- Eoin (Irish)
- Evan (Anglicised form of Welsh Ieuan, Efan, or Ifan)
- Eoin (Scottish Gaelic (Biblical form))
- Gino, (Italian)
- Giuàn (Western Lombard)
- Giovanni (Italian)
- Gjon (Albanian)
- Ġwanni, Ġwann, Ġanni (Maltese)
- Hans (German, from Johannes)
- Հովհաննես (Hovhannes) (Armenian)
- Iain (Scottish Gaelic (common form))
- Ιωάννης, Γιάννης (Ioannis, Giannis) (Greek)
- Ion (Romanian)
- Ivan (Croatian, Russian and other Slavic language nations)
- Iwan (Polish, Welsh)
- Jaan (Estonian)
- Jaanus (Estonian)
- Jan (Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Faroese, Afrikaans)
- Ján (Slovak)
- Janez (Slovene)
- Jani (Finnish)
- Jānis (Latvian)
- János (Hungarian)
- Janusz (Polish)
- Jean (French)
- Jens (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)
- Jevan (Anglicisation of Efan)
- Joan (Catalan)
- João (Portuguese)
- Yohannan (Persian)
- Joanes (Basque)
- Jógvan (Faroese)
- Johan (Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Faroese, Afrikaans)
- Johann (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
- Johannes (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
- Jon (Norwegian, Swedish)
- Yohanes (Indonesian - especially among Catholics)
- Jón (Icelandic, Faroese)
- Jonas (Lithuanian, Swedish)
- Joni (Fijian)
- Jovan (Serbian)
- Jowan (Cornish)
- Juan (Spanish / Filipino)
- Juhan (Estonian, Finnish)
- Juho (Estonian, Finnish)
- Seán (Irish Seán, after the French Jean)
- Shane (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Shaun (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Shawn (Anglicised form of Seán)
- Shon (Israeli Hebrew) שון (from Shawn)
- Siôn (Welsh)
- Xoán (Galician)
- Йоан (Bulgarian Ioan, form of Latin Ioannes)
- Yann (Breton)
- Yahya (Arabic: يحيى) Muslim version of John, also used by Protestant Christians in Indonesia
- Yohanu (Telugu)
- Yohanes (Eritrean, Ewe)
- Yohannan (Malayalam)
- Yohani (Kirundi)
- Yohanna (Aramaic: Youkanna)(Arabic: يوحنا) the Arabic/ Aramaic language derivative used by Christians of the Levant.
- Yosh (Polish)