Jowan

Where Jowan comes from

The dictionaries list Jowan as a given name — a male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Cornish
Along the way
  1. 1980
    Debut at its peak, #3,838
    #3,838 among boys with 10 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,262.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jowan hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.