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The name Jan is of Danish origin, and means God is good. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jan**
Use of the Name Jan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
18,546	8,240	2,205	1,003	1,003	423	233

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Jan first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1930, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1930			943	60
1931	930	49	650	104
1932	943	48	605	118
1933	629	85	609	114
1934	465	147	506	161
1935	390	196	465	187
1936	332	271	427	230
1937	346	246	417	239
1938	308	318	410	269
1939	315	306	378	304
1940	298	351	357	331
1941	260	458	307	446
1942	264	513	297	533
1943	258	546	276	640
1944	248	541	279	609
1945	262	497	220	867
1946	263	567	210	1,146
1947	253	673	198	1,357
1948	257	638	206	1,259
1949	289	549	181	1,524
1950	268	603	167	1,724
1951	248	732	145	2,189
1952	276	623	143	2,482
1953	292	580	140	2,599
1954	251	769	131	2,991
1955	281	648	138	2,769
1956	331	502	136	3,201
1957	371	427	140	2,981
1958	373	432	153	2,627
1959	404	383	161	2,588
1960	414	367	166	2,446
1961	426	345	188	2,029
1962	473	285	203	1,778
1963	524	231	218	1,562
1964	536	212	249	1,256
1965	520	218	285	938
1966	534	202	304	841
1967	571	174	317	747
1968	570	175	344	656
1969	609	165	398	570
1970	642	160	442	498
1971	693	143	477	412
1972	712	127	476	378
1973	729	121	555	295
1974	796	101	520	324
1975	850	96	607	262
1976	684	146	616	254
1977	811	111	677	231
1978	729	133	653	248
1979	758	131	800	197
1980	822	114	841	185
1981	829	113	917	163
1982	726	143	924	163
1983	831	110	1000	143
1984	722	144
1985	787	127
1986	837	117
1987	949	99
1988	914	109
1989
1990	917	126
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000	833	192
2001	791	213
2002	913	175
2003	885	190
2004	769	233
Totals:		18,546		53,225

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jan as a boy's name about 25% of the time and more frequently (about 74% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Jan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 64 times during the last 125 years.

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