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

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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.

Wilkes givenName John
subject surface form: John Wilkes
Boog Powell givenName John
John Colicos givenName John
John Portman givenName John
John Pope givenName John
John B. Knox givenName John
John Sherman givenName John
John Huarte givenName John
John Michael Murphy in Father Murphy givenName John
subject surface form: John Michael Murphy
John Allerton givenName John
John Tate givenName John
John Neville givenName John
John Foxe givenName John
John Shelby givenName John
John V. Knox givenName John
Jack Shea givenName John
John Stow givenName John
John givenName John
subject surface form: John L. Hennessy
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Galen Howard
John givenName John
subject surface form: John McInnis
John hasGivenName John
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Frank Stevens
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Parke Custis
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Milner
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Lasseter
John givenName John
subject surface form: John "Home Run" Baker
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Joseph Haley Jr.
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Gill Shorter
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Alcock
John givenName John
subject surface form: John Tate
John Carmack givenName John