Janot as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Janot

What is the meaning of the name Janot ?

The baby name Janot is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced French: /ʒa.no/; Czech: /ˈjanot/; Anglicized: /ˈdʒænət/.

Janot is in Origin.

Janot is a French diminutive of Jean (equivalent of John), built with the Old French hypocoristic suffix -ot; in Occitan-speaking regions it also served as a familiar of Jan/Joan. The underlying Hebrew name Yohanan means “God is gracious,” transmitted through Latin Iohannes and Old French Jehan/Jean. As with Pierrot and Charlot, Janot began as an affectionate byname in the Middle Ages and early modern parish records, sometimes fossilizing as a given name and more commonly as a surname.

Use has been rare in modern France but persists regionally and appears in literature and folk tales as a rustic everyman. Close variants include Jeannot (the most common form), Jeanot, and the feminine Janotte/Jeannotte; related international forms are Jean, John, Ian, Sean, Juan, Giovanni, Ivan, and Jan. Meaning remains that of the John-family: divine favor or “God is gracious.”