Jahn

Borrowed from German Jahn.

Jahn

1. A surname from German.
   • 2025 September 25, Amanda Musa, Priscilla Alvarez, Leigh Waldman, “A detainee is dead after officials say a shooter fired ‘indiscriminately’ at a Texas ICE facility. Here’s what we know”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The shooter believed to be responsible for the incident was identified as Joshua Jahn, according to three sources familiar with the case. […] In 2016, when he was 19, Jahn was charged with delivering more than one-fourth of an ounce of marijuana, according to Collin County court records. He pleaded guilty and the case against him was deferred, with Jahn being placed on probation.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjaɦn̩]

Jahn m anim (female equivalent Jahnová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Jahn”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Reduced from Johannes; as an Eastern German surname, also from Czech Jan, itself related to the former.

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Jahn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Jahns or (with an article) Jahn, feminine genitive Jahn, plural Jahns)

1. a surname

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Jahn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240.