Johannes Forename
1,309th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 728,520 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Namibia
Johannes Forename User-submission:
It is a German name, which comes from Hebrew Johanan (Yehochanan), meaning 'Jah is gracious'.
Johannes Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 100% | 329,614 | 1:165 | 1 |
| Germany | 100% | 233,862 | 1:413 | 122 |
| Namibia | - | 38,951 | 1:62 | 2 |
| Austria | 100% | 33,439 | 1:255 | 65 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 10,054 | 1:25,658 | 3,510 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 8,565 | 1:1,801 | 331 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 6,459 | 1:2,617 | 494 |
| Norway | 100% | 5,840 | 1:879 | 208 |
| Denmark | - | 5,726 | 1:987 | 209 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 5,465 | 1:1,297 | 268 |
| Belgium | 100% | 5,390 | 1:2,132 | 469 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,212 | 1:1,891 | 301 |
| United States | 100% | 4,448 | 1:81,506 | 3,876 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4,386 | 1:1,873 | 374 |
| Thailand | 100% | 3,416 | 1:20,511 | 2,818 |
| Finland | 100% | 3,027 | 1:1,811 | 339 |
| Ghana | 100% | 2,585 | 1:10,440 | 1,002 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,803 | 1:118,822 | 6,245 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 1,777 | 1:1,148 | 151 |
| England | 100% | 1,579 | 1:35,214 | 1,873 |
| Philippines | 88% | 1,362 | 1:77,834 | 4,787 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 1,344 | 1:39,277 | 3,148 |
| Botswana | 100% | 1,171 | 1:1,865 | 329 |
| France | 100% | 1,137 | 1:58,461 | 1,656 |
| Canada | 100% | 816 | 1:40,605 | 2,895 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 680 | 1:15,340 | 1,573 |
| Estonia | 100% | 651 | 1:2,021 | 443 |
| Suriname | 100% | 592 | 1:934 | 171 |
| Swaziland | - | 589 | 1:2,207 | 494 |
| Australia | - | 575 | 1:23,752 | 1,560 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 526 | 1:296 | 54 |
| Spain | 100% | 482 | 1:96,535 | 2,830 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 408 | 1:75,521 | 8,273 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 375 | 1:81,200 | 6,046 |
| Italy | 100% | 356 | 1:171,523 | 2,585 |
| Malawi | 100% | 317 | 1:53,982 | 3,553 |
| Aruba | - | 305 | 1:340 | 26 |
| New Zealand | - | 282 | 1:16,085 | 1,383 |
| Kenya | - | 281 | 1:164,794 | 7,202 |
| Poland | 100% | 236 | 1:161,132 | 3,078 |
| Greenland | - | 225 | 1:251 | 40 |
| Chile | 94% | 212 | 1:83,053 | 2,313 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 191 | 1:158,125 | 6,242 |
| DR Congo | 87% | 185 | 1:399,068 | 14,867 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 176 | 1:122,787 | 6,019 |
| Greece | 100% | 163 | 1:67,083 | 2,116 |
| Egypt | - | 152 | 1:604,611 | 14,932 |
| Scotland | 100% | 150 | 1:35,669 | 1,308 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 140 | 1:351 | 59 |
| Ireland | 87% | 124 | 1:37,448 | 1,391 |
| Ecuador | - | 123 | 1:144,121 | 2,925 |
| Portugal | - | 120 | 1:86,757 | 2,474 |
| Peru | 98% | 117 | 1:271,722 | 6,231 |
| Israel | 97% | 114 | 1:73,710 | 3,736 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 108 | 1:75,484 | 7,133 |
| Romania | 100% | 104 | 1:192,807 | 6,806 |
| Benin | 100% | 100 | 1:105,758 | 6,414 |
| Hungary | 100% | 95 | 1:103,071 | 737 |
| Mexico | 98% | 92 | 1:1,349,396 | 9,560 |
| China | - | 87 | 1:15,701,791 | 60,064 |
| Iceland | - | 86 | 1:4,256 | 542 |
| Japan | - | 84 | 1:1,523,644 | 17,754 |
| Zambia | - | 77 | 1:205,906 | 7,095 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 67 | 1:8,419 | 741 |
| Qatar | 100% | 61 | 1:38,846 | 5,076 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 54 | 1:298,304 | 3,564 |
| Singapore | 100% | 54 | 1:116,427 | 7,626 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 52 | 1:3,414,699 | 58,288 |
| Liberia | 100% | 47 | 1:93,874 | 4,147 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 46 | 1:103,651 | 3,266 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 46 | 1:823 | 184 |
| Czechia | 98% | 45 | 1:236,804 | 1,745 |
| India | 96% | 45 | 1:26,997,288 | 574,915 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 45 | 1:118,001 | 1,057 |
| Wales | 100% | 39 | 1:79,341 | 2,199 |
| Colombia | 100% | 38 | 1:1,257,340 | 12,976 |
| Panama | 100% | 38 | 1:102,804 | 5,057 |
| Sudan | 100% | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Russia | 100% | 34 | 1:4,242,168 | 21,891 |
| Hong Kong | - | 31 | 1:250,088 | 3,465 |
| Brunei | 100% | 30 | 1:13,986 | 936 |
| Iraq | 100% | 29 | 1:1,207,512 | 9,085 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Andorra | - | 25 | 1:3,315 | 344 |
| Ethiopia | - | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Jamaica | - | 24 | 1:120,134 | 4,769 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 21 | 1:340,571 | 16,465 |
| Croatia | 100% | 20 | 1:210,854 | 3,596 |
| Turkey | 100% | 19 | 1:4,094,827 | 20,430 |
| Gibraltar | - | 18 | 1:1,897 | 362 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 15 | 1:1,584,645 | 46,832 |
| Congo | 100% | 14 | 1:357,800 | 7,134 |
| Monaco | 100% | 14 | 1:2,748 | 527 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 14 | 1:516,915 | 5,000 |
| Nauru | 100% | 13 | 1:917 | 142 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 13 | 1:20,782 | 1,589 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 12 | 1:1,478,904 | 13,216 |
| South Korea | - | 12 | 1:462,035 | 12,149 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 12 | 1:113,452 | 7,514 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 10 | 1:87,108 | 2,498 |
| Guinea | 100% | 10 | 1:1,185,865 | 3,458 |
| Uganda | 100% | 10 | 1:4,095,692 | 39,987 |
| Togo | - | 9 | 1:804,360 | 4,738 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 8 | 1:703,446 | 7,424 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 8 | 1:752,292 | 11,019 |
| Argentina | 100% | 7 | 1:6,110,463 | 14,292 |
| Honduras | - | 7 | 1:1,259,638 | 12,726 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 7 | 1:25,402 | 2,434 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 7 | 1:15,678 | 1,755 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 5 | 1:368,629 | 2,296 |
| Albania | 100% | 5 | 1:609,314 | 20,025 |
| Guyana | - | 5 | 1:152,652 | 10,224 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 5 | 1:18,524,623 | 4,897 |
| Afghanistan | - | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Bulgaria | - | 4 | 1:1,747,598 | 14,265 |
| Cuba | - | 4 | 1:2,876,638 | 6,272 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Micronesia | - | 4 | 1:26,625 | 714 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Oman | - | 4 | 1:1,027,167 | 6,577 |
| Senegal | 100% | 4 | 1:3,645,339 | 17,621 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 3 | 1:6,126,490 | 60,119 |
| El Salvador | - | 3 | 1:2,113,929 | 9,538 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Jordan | 60% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Serbia | - | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 1 | 1:9,555 | 215 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Jóhannes (1,017), Johannès (8), Jôhannes (2) & Johannés (1) are calculated separately.
Johannes (49,821) may also be a surname.
Johannes Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
It is a German name, which comes from Hebrew Johanan (Yehochanan), meaning 'Jah is gracious'.
- Forebears.io Manual SubmissionsThe name Johannes means 'God is gracious', 'God was generous', and also 'God's gift'.
- EhrlerJohannes Forename Popularity
Johannes Demographics
Average Male Johannes Height
176.36 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 649 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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