Janés

surname · Latin script

Janés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a southern English surname, variant of Jane; compare Jayne. * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Janeš, variant of Janež, ultimately a derivative of Latin Johannes (English John).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 221K
  • HRCroatia1 in 264K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

7,659 people, 2010

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Janes in US United States, AR Argentina, 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)

* As a southern English surname, variant of Jane; compare Jayne. * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Janeš, variant of Janež, ultimately a derivative of Latin Johannes (English John). Also from the noun janež (“anise”). Compare Yanes. * As a Czech surname, from Janeš, a pet form of the name Jan (and thus also related to Latin Johannes).

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Janés 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.

Where Janés is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7,6591 in 43K9.3KJanes106
ES Spain1301 in 385K130Janes27
PL Poland611 in 628K38——
CH Switzerland381 in 221K38—4
AR Argentina271 in 1.7M27Janes23
SE Sweden221 in 464K22—1
HR Croatia161 in 264K16——

7,659 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Janés is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Jáneš, Janes, Janês, Jänes, Janeš

  • Czech surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Janes, Janeš, Jáneš, Jänes, Jáňēš

  • English surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Janes, Jane'S, Jänes, Jaenes, Janeš

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Janes, Janès, Janeš, Jänes, Jane'S

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Slovenia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Janeš, Janes, Jánes, Janeś, Jáneš

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Janes

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Janés mean, and where does it come from?
* As a southern English surname, variant of Jane; compare Jayne. * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Janeš, variant of Janež, ultimately a derivative of Latin Johannes (English John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Janés have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Janés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janes.
Where is Janés most common?
Janés is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Janés?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,659 people named Janés in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.

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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, “Janés”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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