The name Johan is the Scandinavian and Dutch form of Iohannes, a Latin name derived from the Hebrew Yochanan meaning ‘Yahweh is gracious’. The English derivation is John.
Johan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Johan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Johan ranks 519. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Johan. In the entire USA, approximately 11,185 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Johan. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Johan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Johan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Johan, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Hat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Johan
Johan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
H
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
H
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Johan sounds like this:
