Ian- John- Sean

[Brasilikilt]

This thread is interesting because My Father's name was John, my name is Iain and my baby boy is named Sean.......I guess we like this name and variants in our family :-)

[Nick the DSM]

Well, reason I ask is because my middle name is Ian and my brother's name is Sean...we're more alike than we think.

[Iain Robb]

This thread is interesting because My Father's name was John, my name is Iain and my baby boy is named Sean.......I guess we like this name and variants in our family :-)

Interesting. My dad's name was John, my real name is Ian, my screen name is Iaian and my son's name is Evan ...

[Brasilikilt]

Interesting. My dad's name was John, my real name is Ian, my screen name is Iaian and my son's name is Evan ...

I think were seeing a trend here

[OC Richard]

A friend named his two sons Ian and Evan, fully knowing that they were Gaelic and Welsh variants of the same name.

Then you have

Joseph/Jose/Josef/Josip/Giuseppe/Seosmh

and

Stephen/Etienne/Esteban/Stepan/Istvan/Stiobhan.

And last names like

Smith/Ferrier/Herrero/Ferraro/Schmidt/Smit/Kovacs/Kowalczyk/Haddad/Kusnetzov/Gow.

[TheNaughtyScot]

Latin does not have a "J" character and typical pronunciation of the letter "A" is long. So if I wanted to write John with my hammer and chisel as it is pronounced, I would spell it IAN.

[saxandpipes]

Ok, so I know Sean and Ian are the Irish and Scottish versions of John. Sean is easily seen why, but Ian I can't figure out how it has derived from John.

Just remember... English wasn't the first language in the world. While a name might have an English equivalent- it doesn't mean that the English is the original version of that particular name. Simple as that

Cheers,

Michael