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Also known as Jansz, Jansz.

Janszoon usually abbreviated to Jansz was a Dutch patronym ("son of Jan"). While Janse, Janssens, and especially Jansen and Janssen, are very common surnames derived from this patronym, the form Jansz is quite rare and Janszoon itself does not exist in the Netherlands. Notable people with this name or its variants include:

Wikidata facts

Instance of
patronymic
Said to be same as
Jansen
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writing system
Latin script
native label
Janszoon
Soundex
J525
Cologne phonetics
0686
Caverphone
YNSN11
Commons category
Janszoon (surname)
short name
Jansz.
language of work or name
Dutch

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  • As a surname
  • In lieu of a surname
  • As a patronym
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Janszoon usually abbreviated to Jansz was a Dutch patronym ("son of Jan"). While Janse, Janssens, and especially Jansen and Janssen, are very common surnames derived from this patronym, the form Jansz is quite rare and Janszoon itself does not exist in the Netherlands. Notable people with this name or its variants include:

==As a surname== Ernst Jansz (born 1948), Dutch musician and novelist, founding member of Doe Maar Frederica Jansz, Sri Lankan Burgher journalist, Editor of the Sunday Leader Geoff Jansz (born 1958), Sri Lankan Australian Burgher chef and television presenter Herbert Eric Jansz (1890–1976), Sri Lankan Burgher civil servant Neville Jansz, Sri Lankan Burgher civil servant and diplomat Pieter Jansz (1820–1904), Dutch Mennonite missionary in Indonesia

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Janszoon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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