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How Many Johns Aren't Named
John?
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A publication of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Foreign Versions, Variations, and
Diminutives of English Names, lists about one hundred twenty-five variants
of John used in eighteen languages. Among the possibly unexpected ones are
Zane, Jank or Janicko or Janeczek or Jankielek, Ioannis, Giannes, Juhani, Hannu,
Ansis, Ivashka and Ivasenko, Vanechka and Vanyushko, Jovan, Yochanan, and
Juanitocho.
Better known are Evan, Jan,
Johann(es), Jean, Hans, Janos, Giovanni, Jonas, Juan, Vanya, and Ivan.
Note that the Russian Ivan Ivanov has a name with exactly the same meaning as
John Johnson.
There are close to ninety or one
hundred variations of Joseph, and about as many of Alexander, Andrew, Anton,
August, Basil, Francis or Frank, George, Gregory, Jacob, Michael, Paul, Peter,
Stephen, Walter, or William.
Among women's given names, Mary
or its equivalent Maria is apparently the champion, with over two hundred
versions and diminutives, but Ann and Anna and their alternatives come close.
Other multiform feminine names include Anastasia, Barbara, Catherine or
Katherine, Dorothy, Eleanor and Ellen and Helen, Elizabeth, Irene, Jane or Joan
or Jeanne (among the feminine equivalents of John), Josephine, Lillian,
Margaret, Rosa or Rose, Sophia, Stephanie, and Theresa, all of which appear in
well over sixty versions.
Hook, J. N. The Book of Names,
A Celebration of Mainly American Names: People, Places, and Things. Franklin
Watts, 1983.
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