Male name
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Γιάννης · Ιωάννης · Giannis
Main name day
Synaxis of Saint John the Baptist
The Greek name Γιάννης (Giannis, formally Ιωάννης) is celebrated on 7 January.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint John the Baptist1st centuryThe Forerunner of Christ, who baptised Him in the Jordan.According to the Gospels, John was the son of the priest Zechariah and Elizabeth. He preached repentance in the Judaean desert and baptised Jesus in the river Jordan, which is why he is called the Forerunner and the Baptist.Read more
- Saint John the Russian18th centuryRussian soldier captured in 1711 who lived as a slave in Prokopion in Cappadocia while keeping his faith; his relics are now kept at Prokopi on Euboea.John was born around 1690 in a village in Little Russia. He was conscripted under Peter the Great and taken prisoner by the Tatars during the Russo-Turkish war of 1711, who sold him as a slave to an Ottoman officer in Prokopion, Cappadocia.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Formal (church) form
- Ιωάννης
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Γιαννάκης, Γιάννος
- In Latin letters
- Giannis, Ioannis, Yiannis, Yannis
- English equivalents
- John
- In Greek
- Γιάννης