Jãnis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Jãnis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the most common given name. 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. Jãnis is also written Ιωαννης in Greek, Янис in Cyrillic and ג'ניס in Hebrew.
- LVLatvia1 in 43(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 37K
- GRGreece1 in 33as Ιωάννης
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jãnis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #265 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 580 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
3,125,123 named John, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jãnis in other scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Janice in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Ioannis in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus, John in GR Greece and Giannis in BR Brazil.
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)Jãnis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #124 | 3,125,123as John | 1 in 106 | 3.1M | Janice | 580 |
| GR Greece | #1 | 320,751as Ιωάννης | 1 in 33 | 650K | John | 246 |
| PH Philippines | #148 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | — | Janice | 160 |
| BR Brazil | — | 171,850as Jean | 1 in 1.2K | 172K | Giannis | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | #139 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 683 | 26 | Janice | 262 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69,521as John | 1 in 147 | 70K | Ioannis | 49 |
| LV Latvia | #1 | 43,623 | 1 in 43 | 44K | Jānis | 63 |
| CY Cyprus | #16 | 13,458as Ιωαννης | 1 in 94 | 13K | Ioannis | 97 |
3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling john. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jãnis 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.
- Is Jãnis a male or female name?
- Jãnis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Jãnis?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Greece, Philippines, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jãnis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jãnis is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 43 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jãnis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 43,623 people named Jãnis, about 1 in 43 residents.
- How common is Jãnis compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jãnis is the 124th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A3nisThe 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, “Jãnis” — ranked 2nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.