January (given name)

January is a given name. It is derived from the name of the month January, which comes from Janus, a Roman god who stood for beginnings and transitions.^[1]

January

Origin
Word/name	Latin, from Janus, the god of beginnings
Meaning	the month of January

People

• January Jones (singer), an American pop singer née Jacqueline Allison
• January Jones (born 1978), American actress
• January Suchodolski (1797–1875), Polish artist
• January Thompson (born 1983), American singer

Fictional characters

• January, one of the main characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale"
• January, an AI from the 2017 video game Prey
• January, the protagonist in Alix Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January
• January, the protagonist in Emily Henry's Beach Read

See also

• January (surname)
• January (disambiguation)