Janét
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janét is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Jane + -et, q.v. Chiefly Scottish until the 19th century.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 360(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 440
- IEIreland≈1 in 440
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 Janét 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #159 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 606 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 359 (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Janet in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more and Jennet in TM Turkmenistan.
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)From Jane + -et, q.v. Chiefly Scottish until the 19th century. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Janét 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #114 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 499 | — | Janet | 103 |
| US United States | #71 | 429,159 | 1 in 775 | 429K | Janet | 606 |
| GB United Kingdom | #54 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | 5 | Janet | 309 |
| PH Philippines | #109 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 865 | — | Janet | 137 |
| CA Canada | #66 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | 2 | Janet | 288 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #112 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | — | Jennet | 18 |
| IE Ireland | #75 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | — | Janet | 101 |
| NZ New Zealand | #63 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 441 | 17 | Janet | 141 |
| SG Singapore | #28 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Janet | 106 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 Janét mean, and where does it come from?
- From Jane + -et, q.v. Chiefly Scottish until the 19th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Is Janét a male or female name?
- Janét is a female 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 Janét?
- Mondonomo estimates about 466 thousand people named Janét in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janet. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Philippines and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Janét?
- In the United States, the national register counted 429,159 people named Janét in 2020, about 1 in 775 residents.
- How common is Janét compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Janét is the 114th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janét?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jan%C3%A9tThe 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, “Janét” — the 114th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.