Janko (first name)
Janko or Jankó is a male given name .
Meaning and origin
The name Janko ( Cyrillic alphabet : Јанко) is the Hungarian or Slavic form of the first names Johannes and Iwan . Colloquially, the name in Hungary is synonymous with "the Batzen"; South Slavic, the name is used as a diminutive of Marjanko or Marijanko .
Frequency and occurrence
While Johannes as the name of an apostle and evangelist , also with recourse to John the Baptist , was the most common baptismal name in Germany at the end of the Middle Ages , the name Janko was never among the ten most common first names for boys between 1900 and 2016.
On the other hand, John remains with 26 votes - up to XXIII., With number XX being ignored in the count and a Paul added twice - the most frequently used official name of the 307 historically relevant popes including the counter- popes . According to a legend, the name John is said to have been used for Popess Johanna alias John VIII in the 9th century.
carrier
- Janko Peranski († 1689), Croatian count and Saxon lieutenant colonel, chamberlain and governor
- Janko Drašković von Trakošćan (1770–1856), Croatian scholar, reformer and politician
- Janko Veselinović (1862–1905), Serbian writer
- Janko Vuković-Podkapelski (1871–1918), Austro-Hungarian naval officer and rear admiral
- Janko Jesenský (1874–1945), Slovak lawyer, civil servant and writer
- Janko Binenbaum (1880–1956), composer
- Janko Šimrak (1883–1946), bishop of the Greek Catholic diocese of Križevci
- Janko Alexy (1894–1970), Slovak painter
- Janko Bobetko (1919-2003), Croatian general
- Janko Messner (1921–2011), Austrian writer
- Janko Tišler (1923–2007), Slovenian-Austrian author and resistance fighter
- Janko Prunk (* 1942), Slovenian historian and politician
- Janko Jezovšek-Jizou (formerly Janko Jezovšek; * 1945), composer, educator, publisher, editor
- Janko Ferk (* 1958), Austrian judge and writer
- Janko Röttgers (* 1976), German journalist and author
- Janko Lauenberger (also Django Lauenberger; * 1976), German musician
- Janko Tipsarević (* 1984), Serbian tennis player
- Janko Božović (* 1985), Austrian handball player
public holidays
- December 27 in the southern Slavic countries (Evangelical and Catholic)
- June 24th ( St. John's Day , birth of John the Baptist , Protestant and Catholic) in Hungary and northern regions
Web links
Frequency, regional distribution and age cohort distribution of the name Janko in Slovenia