John vs Lark

John

name
  • Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known. 

  • One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John). 

  • Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian). 

  • A male given name from Hebrew; very popular since the Middle Ages. 

  • Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below). 

  • The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels. 

  • A surname originating as a patronymic. 

noun
  • A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. 

Lark

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage. 

  • A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence. 

  • A female given name from English from the lark bird. 

  • A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. 

  • A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks. 

How often have the words John and Lark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )