Boy · Hebrew, through Greek
Ioannis
Say it: yoh-AH-nees
Meaning
From Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,256 babies given this name since 1964
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 45,300 boys
- 34 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Giannis, Giannakis
| English | John |
|---|---|
| Romanian | Ion |
Famous bearers
- Ioannis Kapodistrias, first governor of modern Greece
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.