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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : from a pet form of the personal name Johan (see John).
  • English : from a medieval pet form of the personal name Jehan (see John).
  • English : in some cases, perhaps from Old Norse Anki, a pet form of a personal name with the first element Arn-, shortened from arnar, the genitive singular of ǫrn ‘eagle’.

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