MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jose Ivan Dayan mean?
Jose is explicitly recorded as the unaccented José form used in the Americas and Philippines. Its Joseph family comes from Hebrew Yosef, understood as may he add.
The researched Ivan account traces the Slavic form through Old Church Slavonic Ioannu and Greek Ioannes to John. That documented route does not establish the language intended by every Philippine family. The Jewish English Lexicon records exact dayan as a religious-court judge, tracing it through Hebrew dayan and Yiddish dayen.
This is a labelled word reading, without assigning judicial office, ancestry or family intent to a bearer.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Spanish name form; Hebrew; Slavic; Greek transmission; Hebrew; Hebrew; Yiddish; Jewish English word history
Parts of this name
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
JOSE IVAN DAYAN
· CSV row 13,092 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Jose (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: joseph (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Ivan (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: John (opens in a new tab)
- Sarah Bunin Benor, Jewish English Lexicon: dayan (opens in a new tab)