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Meaning & History
Created by Victor Hugo for Jean Valjean, the hero of his novel Les Misérables (1862). The novel explains that his father, also named Jean, received the nickname Valjean or Vlajean from a contraction of French voilá Jean meaning "here's Jean" [1].
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Other Languages & CulturesHovanesian, Hovhannisyan(Armenian) Ivanoŭ, Ivanova, Ivanow, Kazloŭ, Kazlova, Kazlow(Belarusian) Ivanov, Ivanova(Bulgarian) Ivanović(Croatian) Janda, Jandová, Janáček, Janáčková, Janíček, Janíčková(Czech) Jensen, Jenson, Johannessen, Johansen, Johnsen(Danish) Jans, Jansen, Jansens, Jansing, Jansingh, Jansink, Janson, Janssen, Janssens, Janzen, Yancy(Dutch) Evans, Evanson, Hanson, I'Anson, Janson, Jeanes, John, Johns, Johnson, Jones, Hancock, Jenkins, Jennings, Jinks(English) Janssens(Flemish) Jean(French) Jans, Janson, Janz, Gensch, Jahn(German) Giannopoulos, Giannopoulou, Ioannidi, Ioannidis, Ioannidou, Ioannou(Greek) Jankovics(Hungarian) Jensson, Jóhannsson(Icelandic) Nana, Nani, Nanni, Nannini, Zanetti, Zunino(Italian) Jansone, Jansons(Latvian) Jonaitienė, Jonaitis, Jonaitytė(Lithuanian) Ivanov, Ivanova, Ivanovska, Ivanovski, Jovanovska, Jovanovski(Macedonian) Jansen, Jensen, Jenssen, Johannessen, Johansen, Johnsen(Norwegian) Janda(Polish) Ion, Ionescu(Romanian) Ivanov, Ivanova(Russian) Ivanović, Jovanović(Serbian) Janíček, Janíčková(Slovak) Jankovič(Slovene) Juan, Ibáñez(Spanish) Janson, Jansson, Johansson, Jonsson, Johnsson, Jönsson(Swedish) Ivanov, Ivanova(Ukrainian) Bevan, Evans, Jones(Welsh)
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