What does name Jno mean ?

[Kennington]

Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation
Jno stands for in censuses I have read ??

Thanks Mary

[suey]

Hi Mary - it's John........
                                 
                    unless he's one of mine of course, I have a John James, transcribed in 1901 as Gas Gas but he was only ever called Jack!

[casalguidi]

Jonothan?

Casalguidi

[Steve Ley]

Yes, It is Jonothan.


Steve.

[twink]

I thought it was John, not Jonathan....  might be wrong but I think I read something along those lines somewhere.

[Steve Ley]

I thought i would double check and i may be wrong 

Check this link

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/realnames.htm


Steve.

[Nick Carver]

Definitely John. Just one of the very common abbreviations that were not intuitive - see Alfres, short for Alfred though quite why is beyond me. The other common ones are Jas, Jos, Wm, Geo. I'm not aware of the same thing being quite so common amongst the female side of the population - Elizabeth is about the only name I've ever seen.

[Welsh Jen]

Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation
Jno stands for in censuses I have read ??

Thanks Mary

I maybe wrong but I always thought it stood for Junior

but John is correct just viewed this: http://www.nationalarchivist.com/index01/nameAbbr.cfm

[Nick Carver]

If Junior is used to denote the child of someone with the same name, it tends to be abbreviated jn or jun or jr but always in lower case.