John

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John is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in English-speaking countries and borne by numerous historical and contemporary figures.

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Label Occurrences
John canonical 652

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (94)

Predicate Object
instanceOf given name
masculine given name
associatedWith Christian tradition
New Testament
category Biblical given names
English masculine given names
Theophoric names
commonIn Australia
Canada
English-speaking countries
Ireland
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
etymologyFrom Greek Iōannēs
Hebrew Yochanan via Latin Iohannes
frequency very common given name in English-speaking countries
gender masculine
hasDiminutive Jack
Jackie
Jock
Johan
Johnny
hasNameDay various dates depending on country
hasOrigin Hebrew
surface form: Hebrew language

Hebrew name Yochanan
hasVariant Evan
Giovanni
Ian
Ioan
Ivan
Jan
Jean
Johan
Johanus
surface form: Johanis

Johannes
Jonathan
Juan
János
Seán
Shaun
Shawn
languageOfUse Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Basque
Belarusian
Breton
Bulgarian language
surface form: Bulgarian

Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician language
surface form: Galician

Georgian
German
Greek
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Maltese
Norwegian
Occitan
Persian
Polish
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Romanian
Russian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Slovak language
surface form: Slovak

Slovene
Spanish
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

Swedish
Tagalog
Turkish
Ukrainian
Welsh
meaning God is gracious
Yahweh is gracious
usedBy numerous contemporary figures
numerous historical figures

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Referenced by (652)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

John Merrill hasGivenName John
subject surface form: John Merrill (name)
John Cena givenName John
John Coolidge givenName John
John Rauch givenName John
John Thompson givenName John
inspiring the New Hampshire state motto "Live Free or Die" givenName John
subject surface form: John Stark
John Speshock Jr. givenName John
subject surface form: John Spencer
Jack McKeon givenName John
Pope John XI birthName John
John Sloan givenName John
John Piper givenName John
John Bryant givenName John
John Emery hasGivenName John
John Mackey givenName John
John Cheshire givenName John
John Giaever givenName John
Vassall givenName John
subject surface form: John Vassall
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Michael Mulvaney
John Wolyniec givenName John
John Jeffries givenName John
Giovanni cognate John