John Law

in the US

There are 461 people with the name "John Law" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

Name	Rank
John	1
Law	1,022
John Law	21,942

is 1st most common John
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is 7th most common Mary
is 8th most common Richard
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is 1,018th most common Workman
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is 1,021st most common Richter
is 1,022nd most common Law
is 1,023rd most common Bautista
is 1,024th most common Barlow
is 1,025th most common Valenzuela
is 1,026th most common Huynh

is 21,938th most common Joan Green
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is 21,940th most common John Fulton
is 21,941st most common John Herbert
is 21,942nd most common John Law
is 21,943rd most common Jorge Guzman
is 21,944th most common Joshua Jackson
is 21,945th most common Juanita Miller
is 21,946th most common Karen Hart

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Meaning & History

John

Law

(male) English form of Latin Io(h)annes, New Testament Greek Iōannēs, a contracted form of the Hebrew name Johanan ‘God is gracious’ (the name of several different characters in the Old Testament, including one of King David's ‘mighty men’). John is the spelling used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. The name is of great importance in early Christianity: it was borne by John the Baptist (the precursor of Christ himself, who baptized sinners in the River Jordan), by one of Christ's disciples (John the Apostle, a fisherman, brother of James), and by the author of the fourth gospel (John the Evangelist, identified in Christian tradition with the apostle, but more probably a Greek-speaking Jewish Christian living over half a century later). The name was also borne by many saints and by twenty-three popes, including John XXIII (Giuseppe Roncalli, 1881–1963), whose popularity was yet another factor influencing people to choose this given name. It was also a royal name, being borne by eight Byzantine emperors and by kings of Hungary, Poland, Portugal, France, and elsewhere. Among numerous bearers of note in recent times have been American president John F. Kennedy (1917–63) and British pop singer John Lennon (1940–80). In its various forms in different languages, it has been the most perennially popular of all Christian names.