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Jhan

Boy · JAHN · Hebrew

Jhan is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Jhan mean?

Hebrew: Latin American spelling of Jan or John

“God is gracious”

The added h follows Latin American spellings such as Jhon, ultimately from the Hebrew Yochanan.

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JAHN

Is Jhan a girl's or a boy's name?

Jhan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jhan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Jhan, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1951.

Half of all the boys named Jhan in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 283 boys in the US were given Jhan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #795, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.

1951Busiest: 12 in 20102025
Jhan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
202412#6,827
20236#10,815
20220–
20215#12,141
20205#12,016
20195#12,138
20180–
20179#8,136
20168#8,811
20150–
20145#12,102
20130–
20128#8,858
20119#8,072
201012#6,692
200911#7,231
20087#9,864
20076#10,915
200610#7,422
20050–
200411#6,514
20038#7,824
20026#9,385
20018#7,529
20000–
19998#7,132
19987#7,553
19970–
19960–
19959#5,922
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19597#3,289
19585#3,942
19570–
19566#3,533
19550–
19540–
19530–
19526#3,370
19515#3,712

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