Patrisia Rawlins-Manusos said: >Ioannis is the Greek spelling, Johannes is the Latin spelling. Not necessarily. My dictionary lists both Johannes and Joannes as Late Latin versions of the name. And in the Latin in use in the region and time to which I refer, (18th and 19th century western Germany), the "J" was often not used in Latin, being replaced by I. My only point is that one may come accross the name spelled both those ways in Latin language records of the time.