Johann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Johann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name. In German, recorded as from Hebrew Yôḥānān 'Yahweh is gracious'.
- ATAustria≈1 in 338(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 384
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Hebrew Yôḥānān 'Yahweh is gracious'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Johann is read(measured from records)
Johann is one spelling over 4 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.
- German64%
from Hebrew Yôḥānān 'Yahweh is gracious'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from the personal name Johann, a vernacular form of Latin Johannes (see John).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a diminutive of the male given name Johannes, equivalent to English John
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Rufnamen-Komposition; zweiter Bestandteil des Typs. Belegt die morphologische Einbindung von Johann in Zusammensetzungen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
- French14%
German form of Jean; «Dieu est miséricordieux».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Johann in English.
- Spanish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Johann in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Johann 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #73 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | — | Johann | 243 |
| AT Austria | #34 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 338 | 2.9K | Johann | 163 |
| ZA South Africa | #297 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Johann | 108 |
| FR France | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 19K | Johann | 8 |
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Johann | 18 |
| US United States | — | 5,853 | 1 in 57K | 5.3K | Johann | 333 |
| CH Switzerland | #114 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 160 | Johann | 114 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2,005 | 1 in 175 | 2K | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa — population register names 2023. 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)
Johann is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Vernacular form of JOHANNES. Jo(h)anna 2 Feminine form of JOHANNES.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Johann Bernoullib. 1667CHSwiss mathematician (1667-1748)
- Josef Ib. 1678ATnot in their usual nameEmperor from 1705 till his death in 1711
- Johann Sebastian Bachb. 1685DEGerman composer (1685–1750)
- Karl VIb. 1685ATnot in their usual name18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
- Johann Christian Bachb. 1735DEGerman composer (1735–1782)
- Johann Gottfried von Herderb. 1744PLGerman philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
- Johann Pestalozzib. 1746CHSwiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)
- Wolfgang Amadè Mozartb. 1756ATnot in their usual nameAustrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
- Friedrich Schillerb. 1759DEnot in their usual nameGerman playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichteb. 1762DEGerman philosopher (1762–1814)
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 101 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 19K | #968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.3K | #3,532 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 2.9K | #80 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 562 | #3,532 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 94 | #80 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 85 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Johann mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew Yôḥānān 'Yahweh is gracious' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Johann?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; Hans and Hannes are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Johann a male or female name?
- Johann is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Johann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 209 thousand people named Johann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johann.
- Where is Johann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Johann is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Johann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,853 people named Johann in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Johann compared with other names?
- In Germany, Johann is the 73rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johannThe 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, “Johann” — the 73rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.