John: Meaning of baby name John

Pronunciation: [John]

Gender of John: Male

Meaning of John: Jehovah Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor. In The Bible John The Baptist Baptized Christ In The Jordan River. Variants Have Been Created In Almost Every Language.

Origin of John: Hebrew

John is a dominant name in the history of the world. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Pope John Paul II and John F. Kennedy were the most important people among them.


Variant Forms:

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
EvanYoung FighterMaleCeltic
Gianni"Variant Of Giovanni, Italian Version Of English John."MaleItalian
GiovanniGift From GodMaleHebrew
HansGod's GiftMaleDanish
HanselGift From GodMaleHebrew
IanGift From God Form Of John.MaleScottish
IvanGift From GodMaleHebrew
JackReplace (Derivative Of James)MaleEnglish
JackieGod Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor. Based On John Or Jacques. Used More For Girls Than Boys.MaleEnglish
JackyGod Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor. Based On John Or Jacques.MaleScottish
JeanGift From GodMaleHebrew
JockSupplanterMaleHebrew
JohnnVariant Of The Hebrew John Jehovah Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor.MaleEnglish
JohnnieModern Feminine Of John And Jon.MaleEnglish
JohnnyVariant Of John Or Abbreviation Of Jonathan Jehovah Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor.MaleEnglish
JohnsonSon Of JohnMaleScottish
JonVariant Of John Or Abbreviation Of Jonathan Jehovah Has Been Gracious: Has Shown Favor. Sometimes Used In The French Fashion Hyphenated With A Second Name Like Jon-Carlo Or Jon-PaulMaleFrench
JovanWarrior.MaleAmerican
SeanGift From God. Form Of John From The French Jean.MaleIrish
ShaneVariant Of Shaun From John.MaleIrish
ShaunVariant Of John From Sean.MaleIrish
ShawnFrom The Shady GroveMaleEnglish
ZaneVariant Of John. American Western Writer Zane Grey.MaleEnglish

Famous People Named John:

Sir Clive William John Granger is a Nobel Prize winning economist and a trendsetter in economic science.

Robert Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

Pope John XXIII was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy.

Pope John Paul II served as the Pope of the Catholic Church for more than two and half decades.

Michael Johnson is a record-breaking sprinter, who has won several gold medals.

Johnny Vegas is an English actor and comedian.

Johnny Knoxville is a daredevil turned actor and comedian, who is famous as the creator of the MTV series ‘Jackass’.

Johnny Cash was a famous American singer-songwriter, author and actor.

John Wilkes Booth was an actor who assassinated the U.

John Wilkes was a renowned English journalist and politician.

John Wesley initiated the Arminian Methodist movement.

John Waters is an American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, stage artist, journalist, visual artist and author.

John W. Thompson is the CEO of Virtual Instruments who was earlier the CEO of Symantec Corporation.

John W. Snow is a former American Secretary of the Treasury and CEO of CSX Corporation.

John W. Campbell was an American science fiction writer and editor.

John Updike was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

John Tyler has the distinction of being the first vice president, who went on to become the U.S.

John Turner is a Canadian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

John Travolta is an outstanding American actor, dancer, and singer.

John The Baptist is regarded as the forerunner of Jesus Christ.

John Stuart Mill was a famous British philosopher known for his significant contribution towards the rights of women.

John Stamos is an actor and musician best known for his role as Jesse Katsopolis in the sitcom ‘Full House’.

John Smeaton was an English engineer famously known as the ‘Father of Civil Engineering’.

John Singleton Copley was an America born painter famous for his innovative style of portrait paintings of important figures.

John Ruskin was an artist writer and a great architecture.

John Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist.

John Ray was a 17th century English naturalist.

John Rawls was an American academician, philosopher and writer.

John R Hicks was a murderer executed by the U.S. state of Ohio.

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States.

John Pippy is an American Republican politician from the U.

John Piper is a well-known Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and is the author of a number of evangelical publications.

John Paul Jones was the greatest naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.

John Newton was an English sailor and Anglican clergyman.

John Muir was a famous American naturalist, author and an advocate of wildlife preservation.

John Milton was a famous English poet who wrote the epic poem “Paradise Lost” and its sequel “Paradise Regained”.

John Mellencamp is an American rock musician and painter famous for promoting heartland rock.

John McCain is the current US Senator from Arizona and was the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in the 2008 elections.

John Maynard Keynes was a British Economist who greatly changed modern economic policies of governments and the practices of modern macroeconomics.

John Marshall was an American lawyer and served as the fourth Chief Justice of the U.

John Malkovich is a veteran actor and producer known for his roles in films like ‘Places in the Heart’ and ‘In the Line of Fire’.

John M. Ford was a renowned American writer, poet and game designer.

John Luke was an Irish figurative painter, muralist, landscape artist and sculptor.

John Locke was a great English philosopher and enlightenment thinker.

John Lennon was a prominent English musician and one of the co-founders of the rock band The Beatles.

John Krasinski is a famous American actor, director and writer.

John Knox was a pastor and reformer and the leader of the Reformation in Scotland.

John Key is the current Prime Minister of New Zealand who has been in the office since 2008.

John Kenneth Galbraith was the most famous economist from America, he is best remembered for his iconic work, ‘The New Industrial State’.

John Keats was one of the most loved romantic poets of English literature.

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