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Origin of Jan Total Records: 18  Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: The JANSSEN name has a Dutch/Belgium background. My ggrandmothers name was JANSSENS and was traced to St. Niklaas, Waas, Belgium in the mid 1800's. The name means Son of Jan. Surnames: Janssen Submitted by: Ginny Struyf Boswell Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: originally spelled janswhich came from the dutch. I beleieve that they immigrated in 1778. Surnames: Yonts, Jans Submitted by: tamera yonts lent Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Jan Socha from Brzyska Wola Poland to New Jersey. Lived at 178 Steuben street for a time with Jacob Markiewicz and Bartlomiej Wilkos. Not much info. If you can help, please do. Thanks. Surnames: Jan Socha Submitted by: Terri Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Mirjana Bartl, married Siampos, late 1960's in Chicago, later moved to Oak Lawn, Ill. My penfriend from Sweden in the 1960's. I migrated to Australia 31 years ago. Would be great to hear from Mirjana again. Surnames: Mirjana Submitted by: Ulla in Australia Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Born on 4/3/62 dark hair, olive skin. Father James Higdon, brother Michael J Higdon. Could now be married Surnames: Peta Jane Higdon Submitted by: Judy Webb-Danton Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: de la rep. argentina Surnames: alejandro Submitted by: alejandro Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Collecting family data on descendants of Anthony Janczewski, orig from Belarus; settled Schuylkill Co, PA mid/late 1800's Surnames: Janczewski Submitted by: Sharon S Robinson Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Janowski is a surname which started from given name Jan. Most probably Tom son of Jan would be Tom Janowski. Another possibility is from the city Janow in Poland, some one use to live in Janow, and moved to another place, so they called him Janowski which means from Janow. Surnames: Janowski Submitted by: Greg Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Orgin of that name is Europian, mostly Polish but also occur in other Slovakian family languages. This name occur in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraina, Check Republick, Slovakia and maybe some other countries. Also has different variety: Janovski, Yanowski, Yanovski. Sometimes is confused with JanKowski but this is completely different name. Surnames: Janowski Submitted by: Greg Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: The Japanese character for Soto means Outside. Surnames: Soto, Mandujano, Huerta, Mejia Submitted by: Juan Soto Jr. Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: The surname Janssen is a common German surname from Ostfriesland, the northwest area of Germany along the North Sea Coast Surnames: Janssen Submitted by: Gene Janssen Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: In any case, Januszewski comes ultimately from the name Janusz, a variant form of Jan, "John." But the endings -owski or -ewski usually indicate reference to a place name, and generally Januszewski got started as meaning "person from Januszewo," and that name in turn means "place of Janusz," presumably referring to the founder of the village or a noble who owned it at some point. So Januszewski means "person associated with the place of Janusz" -- but in practical terms that boils down to "person from Januszewo." Januszewski is pretty common, as of 1990's there were 3,491 Polish citizens with this surname. Unfortunately, there are at least 4 villages named Januszewo, plus a few more with slightly different names that could generate the surname Januszewski. So I can't pin down exactly where the family came from. However, if your research helps you determine the part of Poland the family lived in, and if you find on maps or in other references mention of a place nearby with a name beginning in Janusz-, chances are fairly good that's the place the surname originally referred to. Surnames: Januszewski Submitted by: Rob Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Jancke goes back to the name "Johann ", a shortform is "Jan". In Eastgermany an other schortform was Janeke "the small Johann". In old german writing the e looks like an latin u and the c like an i, so somone droppt half of the u and there is was: Jancke Surnames: Jancke Submitted by: Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: My family, the Janzens is a long stnding Mennonite name. My great great grandfather, Peter Janzen came to america from Prussia, no known as part of russia. Surnames: Janzen Submitted by: Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: the name Hagedoorn comes from a farm in the city of Almelo , the Netherlands in about 1670. It is the name of the tree that surrounded the farm and called "hagedoorn" It is a heavy tree or large bush . The English translation is : hawthorne. Surnames: jan harry Submitted by: hagedoorn Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Derived from a first name either son of Jan (John) or (illegitimate) son of Jane Surnames: Janes Submitted by: Janes Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: In Bohemia, there is usual name Jan for boys. There was man named Jan who had really big ears (ear in chzech is ucho, or ousko). So the man Jan was called Jan-ousek (in english: John-ears). Surnames: Janouskova Submitted by: Jana Janouskova Origin of Jan, Meaning of Jan Origin: Stojanovic when broken down into serbian and looking at phontic simalarites can mean 100 I new Sto means 100 Ja means I and Novi means new the c is probobly used as a linking phrase. Surnames: stojanovic Submitted by: 2/15/2012 8:38 PM Page 1 of 1

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