MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jovan mean?
Jovan is a Serbian and Macedonian form of John, written Јован in Cyrillic. Its history runs through the Christian Johannes tradition to Hebrew Yochanan, conventionally God is gracious. The v belongs to the transmitted language form.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
The cited sources trace Jovan through Hebrew.
Wiktionary records Jovan as a personal name in English.
Dictionary accounts by language
English
A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јован (Jovan), equivalent to John
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
Similar names to Jovan
Explore names with a similar opening or ending.
- Joan♂♀English form of Joanna; God is gracious
- Johan♂God is gracious; a John-family form
- Evan♂♀Welsh John-family form: Yahweh is gracious
- Ivan♂God is gracious; a Slavic form of John
- Jo-Ann♀Variant of Joanne, in the John-name family
- Joana♀Portuguese and Catalan feminine John-family form
- Joar♂Horse + army or warrior, from Old Norse Jóarr
- Joen♂Older Scandinavian form of Jon or Johan
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate record · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
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- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Jovan (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Jovan (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: jovan (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: John (opens in a new tab)