| LC control no. | sh 85045948 |
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| Family name heading | Evans family |
| Variant(s) | Eavans family Eavens family Eavins family Evan family Evanse family Evanson family Evens family Evensen family Evenson family Evians family Evins family |
| See also | Johns family |
| Found in | Work cat.: Ojeda Marín, A. Cinco historias de la conexión española con la India, Birmania y China, 2020: p. 13 (the sisters de Juan (Hwang)) Dictionary of American family names (Hanks), via WWW, viewed April 13, 2022 (Evans: Welsh: patronymic from the personal name Iefan (see Evan), with redundant English patronymic -s. Evan: 1. Welsh: from the personal name Iefan, a Welsh form of John .... 2. Scottish: variant of Ewan. John: English, Welsh, German, etc.: ultimately from the Hebrew personal name yōḥānān 'Jehovah has favored (me with a son)' or 'may Jehovah favor (this child)'.This personal name was adopted into Latin (via Greek) as Johannes .... Some of the principal forms of the personal name in other European languages are Welsh Ieuan, Evan, Siôn, and Ioan; Scottish Ia(i)n; Irish Séan; German Johann, Johannes, Hans; Dutch Jan; French Jean; Italian Giovanni, Gianni, Ianni; Spanish Juan; Portuguese João; Greek Iōannēs (vernacular Yannis); Czech Jan; Russian Ivan. Polish has surnames both from the western Slavic form Jan and from the eastern Slavic form Iwan. ... As a surname in the British Isles, John is particularly frequent in Wales, where it is a late formation representing Welsh Siôn rather than the older form Ieuan (which gave rise to the surname Evan). As an American family name this form has absorbed various cognates from continental European languages) |
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