A male given name from Hebrew; very popular since the Middle Ages.
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).
Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.
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.
A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
A diminutive of the male given name Edward