Your name of Jan gives you a strong urge for independence. You find your own solutions and innovations to get a job done, without relying on encouragement or assistance from others. Your name often makes you feel separate and alone. Yet, when they get to know you, they realize you are loyal in friendships and would go to any length to help someone in need. Neither sentimental nor idealistic, you take life as it comes and learn as you go. You will not tolerate dominance by others because your freedom means too much to you. You are steadfast and loyal, and do not allow gossip or anything belittling to be said against those whom you accept in friendship. You prefer to be alone with your own thoughts, rather than in the company of others. You find satisfaction in being outdoors or in getting out into nature, or in dealing with the products of the earth. There is originality and depth of thought contained in this name, particularly along practical and mathematical lines.