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Jannes

“God is gracious”

masculineLatin script

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Origin: Not established
4 language contexts: German Dutch Afrikaans +1 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Jannes

Jannes is a masculine given name documented in German, Dutch, Afrikaans and 1 other language. It is a form of Johannes, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “God is gracious”.

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

deutsche Kurzform von Johannes

Sources for this account (7)

German Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q20088164CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Jannes is used

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Across borders

countries in our sources

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4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Germany

Statistics + language records

Berlin, 2023: 6 boys (rank 467). Documented as a given name in German.

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4 of 7 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Jannes

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 3; births; Rank #1,545
Peak year: 2012; 7 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Jannes in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	1	1,158	observed
2002	2	1,021	observed
2003	1	1,241	observed
2004	2	1,074	observed
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	1	1,362	observed
2007	1	1,407	observed
2008	2	1,242	observed
2009	2	1,267	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	4	1,032	observed
2012	7	799	observed
2013	2	1,391	observed
2014	4	1,117	observed
2015	3	1,296	observed
2016	3	1,310	observed
2017	2	1,571	observed
2018	1	1,846	observed
2019	1	1,887	observed
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	3	1,452	observed
2022	4	1,263	observed
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	2	1,634	observed
2025	3	1,545	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Jannes” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

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04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Jannes Horn
born 1997
German association football player
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q20088164CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Jannes.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Jannes.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Jannes

Jannes is a masculine given name documented in German, Dutch, Afrikaans and 1 other language. It is a form of Johannes, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “God is gracious”.

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

deutsche Kurzform von Johannes

Sources for this account (7)

German Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q20088164CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Jannes is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Jannes’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Germany

Statistics + language records

Berlin, 2023: 6 boys (rank 467). Documented as a given name in German.

Explore Germany

4 of 7 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Jannes

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 3; births; Rank #1,545
Peak year: 2012; 7 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Jannes in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	1	1,158	observed
2002	2	1,021	observed
2003	1	1,241	observed
2004	2	1,074	observed
2005	1	1,331	observed
2006	1	1,362	observed
2007	1	1,407	observed
2008	2	1,242	observed
2009	2	1,267	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	4	1,032	observed
2012	7	799	observed
2013	2	1,391	observed
2014	4	1,117	observed
2015	3	1,296	observed
2016	3	1,310	observed
2017	2	1,571	observed
2018	1	1,846	observed
2019	1	1,887	observed
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	3	1,452	observed
2022	4	1,263	observed
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	2	1,634	observed
2025	3	1,545	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q20088164CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: JannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannesCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Jannes.oggCC-BY-SA-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Jannes.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Jannes

Meaning in the sources

Where Jannes is used

Across borders

Germany

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Jannes Horn

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Jannes

Meaning in the sources

Where Jannes is used

Across borders

Germany

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Notable bearers

Jannes Horn

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page