American Family Name Origins:
Jantzen
Frequency: (672)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German and Danish: patronymic from the personal name Jan.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Franz, Gerhard, Hans, Heino, Klaus, Kurt, Manfred.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
