Jehan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jehan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In French, recorded as a male given name of historical usage.
- FRFrance≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 11K
- SYSyria≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Martinique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name of historical usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jehan is read(measured from records)
Jehan is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English25%
Arabic; beautiful flower.
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- Arabic21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jehan in Arabic.
- French12%
a male given name of historical usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jehan in Spanish.
- Urdu6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jehan in Urdu.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jehan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Jehan | 23 |
| SY Syria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Jehan | 7 |
| US United States | 1,016 | 1 in 327K | 727 | Jehan | 95 |
| FR France | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 915 | Jehan | 188 |
| VE Venezuela | 517 | 1 in 55K | 517 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Jehan | 5 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jehan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Tunisie
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In fro, a male given name, equivalent to English John
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, to speak, say
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jehan de Lescurelb. 1300FRFrench composer
- Jean Juvénal des Ursinsb. 1388FRnot in their usual nameFrench archbishop (1388-1473)
- Jean Bourdichonb. 1457FRnot in their usual nameFrench miniature painter and manuscript illuminator (1457-1521)
- Jean Petitb. 1492FRnot in their usual nameFrench printer and publisher
- Thoinot Arbeaub. 1520FRnot in their usual nameFrench dance manual author and priest (1520-1595)
- Jean-Georges Vibertb. 1840FRnot in their usual nameFrench academic painter (1840-1902)
- Jehan Alainb. 1911FRFrench organist and composer (1911-1940)
- Jehan Buhanb. 1912FRFrench fencer (1912-1999)
- Jehan Sadatb. 1933EGhuman rights activist and former First Lady of Egypt.
- Jihane Chouaibb. 1972LBnot in their usual namefilm director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 915 | #2,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 727 | #12,289 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 517 | #2,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 289 | #12,289 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2012 | 5 | #79 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jehan mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name of historical usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jehan a male or female name?
- Jehan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Jehan?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jehan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Jehan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jehan.
- How common is the name Jehan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,016 people named Jehan in 2020, about 1 in 327 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jehan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jehanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jehan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.