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Evan is a Welsh masculine given name, derived from Iefan, a Welsh form of the name John.Similar names that share this origin include Euan, Ivan, Ian, and Juan. "John" itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name יְהֹוחָנָן (romanised: Yəhôḥānān), meaning "Yahweh is gracious".
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents.. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form.
A Pictish name, Uuen (or Wen) meaning "(the) warrior", [1] or "born of the mountain", [2] may instead be the source. If the source is Latin Eugenius, it would make Ewan a cognate of Welsh, Cornish and Breton names including Owain (Owen) and Ouen. However, these may be older names derived from Britonnic language words referring to yew trees or ...
In its anglicised form, the name means "son of Evan". Regarding its Welsh roots, it is a derivative of the name Ifan, a cognate of John. [6] In the Welsh language, the f produces the v sound; Ifan (Ivan) became Evan. Another school of thought is that ‘Evan’ ( Yvain, Yvainne) is the Latinised Norman-French derivation of ‘Owain’.
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Jovan, Jan, Janez, Evan, Giovanni, Ifan, and "John" in other languages Look up Ivan , Иван , or Іван in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ivan ( Cyrillic : Иван / Іван ) is a Slavic male given name , connected with the variant of the Greek name Iōánnēs (English: John ) from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānnān meaning 'God is ...
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