Jan Family History
Jan Name Meaning
North German Danish Polish Sorbian and Croatian; Czech (also Ján); Slovak (Ján): from the personal name Jan (Slovak Ján) a shortened vernacular form of Latin Johannes (see John ). The Sorbian surname is found mainly in Germanized forms Jahn and Jähn. See also Yan . Slovenian: from the personal name Jan a variant or a short form of Janez an equivalent of John . Breton (rarely Le Jan): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Ian (modern spelling Yann ) a Breton equivalent of John . French: from a regional variant of the personal name Jean ‘John’. Muslim (mainly Pakistan and India): from a personal name based on the Persian word ḡān ‘soul life’. Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 冉 see Ran .7: Chinese: alternative Mandarin form of the surnames 詹 占 湛 展 戰 and 粘 see Zhan 1-6.8: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 甄 see Zhen .9: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄭 see Zheng
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022