The name Jan is a girl's name meaning "God is gracious".

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Jan, not short for Janet or Janice but standing on its own, ranked in the Top 200 throughout the 1950s but dropped off the Top 1000 in the 1980s and now is a truly extinct name, given to fewer than five baby girls in the US each year.

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The name Jan is currently ranked #999 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #131 in 1954. It is currently rising in popularity. Jan is occasionally used for boys in 2025.

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The name Jan is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "God is gracious".

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A standard form of John in Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Slovene, German, and Catalan. Properly pronounced yahn (in most of these languages), most Americans will still equate it with the Brady Bunchesque girls' name Jan, which is now officially extinct. 
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About 70 baby boys were named Jan in the US last year, and we'll bet many of those are pronounced the American way, rhyming with can.

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The name Jan is currently ranked #961 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #247 in 1944. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in JAN, JAN, and JAN. Jan is occasionally used for girls in 2025.

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