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Jaynes

Jaynes is the plural of Jayne.

Meaning of Jayne

Proper noun

Jayne

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.
  2. A female given name from Hebrew, a 20th-century spelling of Jane.
    • "Having lunch with the Gorgons today?" Andrew had asked her. It was his oft-stated opinion that the ys in Kathryn and Jayne''s names were their compensation for a missing, but coveted, male chromosome.1997, Sharyn McCrumb, “The Luncheon”, in Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 118

Proper noun

Jaynes

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.

Questions about Jaynes

What does Jaynes mean?
Jaynes means a surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.
What is Jaynes the plural of?
Jaynes is the plural of Jayne.
What part of speech is Jaynes?
Jaynes is a proper noun.

Words near Jaynes in the dictionary

  1. Jaylynn
  2. Jaymes
  3. Jaymey
  4. Jayna
  5. Jayne
  6. Jaynes
  7. Jaynesian
  8. Jayo
  9. Jayoncé
  10. jaypie
  11. jaypies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jaynes (page history and authors); Jayne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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