Jânis
given name · Latin script
Jânis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
- LVLatvia1 in 43(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 2.5K
- USUnited States1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jânis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
43,623 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jānis in LV Latvia, Janis in US United States and Yannis in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jânis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 43,623 | 1 in 43 | 44K | Jānis | 14 |
| US United States | 38,436 | 1 in 8.7K | 38K | Janis | 33 |
| ES Spain | 1,516as Yanis | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Yannis | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 1,003as Ioannis | 1 in 10K | 1K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 986 | 1 in 215K | 992 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 784as Ianis | 1 in 4.3K | 784 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 139 | 1 in 2.5K | 139 | — | — |
43,623 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jânis mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Jânis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Jânis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jānis.
- Where is Jânis most common?
- Jânis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jânis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 43,623 people named Jânis, about 1 in 43 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A2nisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jânis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.