Diese Karte zeigt die häufigste Entsprechung des Namens John in Europa. Als der Name übersetzt wurde, passte ihn jede Kultur an ihre sprachlichen Muster an, z.
Englisch: John
Spanisch: Juan
Französisch: Jean
Englisch: Giovanni
Deutsch: Johann
Russisch: Ivan
Der Name verbreitete sich durch den Einfluss des Christentums in ganz Europa, insbesondere durch biblische Persönlichkeiten wie Johannes der Täufer und Johannes der Apostel. Als die Bibel in verschiedene Sprachen übersetzt wurde, passte jede Kultur den Namen an ihre eigene Aussprache und ihre Sprachtraditionen an, wodurch die vielen regionalen Formen entstanden, die auf dieser Karte zu sehen sind.
Derselbe Prozess führte auch zu weiblichen Äquivalenten wie Joanna, Jane, Giovanna und Juana, die alle denselben Ursprung und dieselbe Bedeutung haben.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(Vorname)
Bearbeiten: Vielen Dank für alle Korrekturen und lokalen Einblicke! Wie bei vielen Karten dieser Art handelt es sich auch hier um eine vereinfachte Übersicht, und in vielen Ländern gibt es mehrere gültige regionale oder sprachliche Varianten. In mehreren Ländern und Regionen gibt es mehrere gültige Formen, und einige lokale Varianten oder kleinere Sprachen können weggelassen oder verallgemeinert werden. Ich freue mich über jeden, der in den Kommentaren sein lokales Wissen teilt.
Von aNonYmoUs_gLideR
36 Kommentare
The weird thing is that while Ivan is technically John, it’s historically not been treated as such.
We say Ivan the Terrible, not John the Terrible, and it’s the same in Slovak – we say Ivan Hrozný, not Ján Hrozný.
But also, the name Ivan is also common in Slovak (but less so than Ján) – I guess it’s like English, where both John and Ian/Iain are common.
No. In Norway Jon or John is still very much a name.
Maltese?
Wales is wrong. It’s Sion, not Evan for John. The Welsh alphabet doesn’t even have a letter „v“; the „v“ sound is represented by a single „f“.
Croatia uses Ivan, not Jovan
In basque, it must be Ibane, linked the town donibane garazi.
Many of these languages have several different names, all of which are derived from one another and ultimately from Yochanan. Many of the names on the map aren’t even the most common ones. For example, in my own language, Finnish, there are a huge number of much more common variations of “Yochanan,” such as Juhani (the most common male name, period), Jussi, Juha, Juho, Janne, Jani and Hannu. Juhana, however, is the version into which the foreign versions of the names are translated, for example, in royal names (with the exception of Ivan, which is translated as Iivana). I would assume that the same is true for the other names on the map as well.
Yeehaw in USA
TIL Ivan = John
France: 👖
now do Mary
I certainly never seriously considered John to be another way to refer to me, with my name being Ivan (or, rather, Vanya)
John is also Ian, which is a lot closer to Ivan and Jan
okay mate you could have only checked wikipedia itself to see that germany is partly wrong.
johann isnt a name used in germany. johannes is. also jan. or hans. or henning. or jens. or hannes.
In Romanian is more Ion
MFers named John in Navarre be like
There’s also Jowan in Cornwall
in slovenia we have Ivan and Janez
in Greek Ιωάννης, and from the Greek word everything follows
Italy’s version:
When this map pops up, it’s always Evan for Wales. No it isn’t. It’s Ifan, Ieuan, or Siôn. Evan is English for Ifan.
Aside from being wrong for German (it is „Johannes“), why is the language written only over Germany? Switzerland and Austria also speak German, as it is a pluricentric language.
It would be much more true if the text overlapped Austria and Switzerland, or if they had their own text, as in a lot of cases it is different to Germany’s German.
In The Netherlands, Johannes also works, as that’s the translation in the Bible as well.
As for Germany, I’d say *Hannes* is the most common local form these days
‚Jago‘ yn Kernewek
Never heard of John being Eoin in Ireland, but it is funnier because we have multiple spellings for Eoin too
In Romania, Ion is way more popular than Ioan
In armenian – Hovhannes
Turkish Yahya is much similar to Elias
In russian Илья,
armenian Yeghya!
But not John as well!
Germany has tons of variants:
Johann
Johannes
Hannes
Hans
Hanno
Jens
Jan
As usual in this sub, the colors are next to meaningless without a legend. How is the Eastern European Jan („Yahn“) so different from Greek Giannis („Yannis“) or Turkish Yahya but is colored more similar to Ivan?
Finland is wrong – it should be Juha or Juhani. They’re both much more common than Juhana.
In Croatia It’s called Ivan
It’s „Ivan“ in Croatian.
TIL Hans comes from Johannes
Suomi: Juha / Juhani