Johann is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “Yahweh is gracious.” In 2024 it was given to 91 boys in the United States.
Johann at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · German · Greek
Meaning
“Yahweh is gracious”
Also spelled
Greek
About the name Johann
Johann belongs to the Biblical & Christian and German tradition. Its meaning — “Yahweh is gracious” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Greek.
In the United States, Johann first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #912 in 2010, and in 2024 91 babies received the name — 4,784 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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