Janaí
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Janaí is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Janai is a biblical name, traditionally masculine, meaning "God answers." It belongs to a chief of the tribe of Gad mentioned in the Old Testament.
- USUnited States1 in 132K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 294K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 338K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
2,524 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Janai in US United States, BR Brazil, PT Portugal and 2 more.
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)Janai is a biblical name, traditionally masculine, meaning "God answers." It belongs to a chief of the tribe of Gad mentioned in the Old Testament. While historically male, it is sometimes used as a gender-neutral name in modern times.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Janaí 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 | 2,524 | 1 in 132K | 2.4K | Janai | 108 |
| BR Brazil | 719 | 1 in 294K | 787 | Janai | 56 |
| CA Canada | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 626K | — | Janai | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Janai | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 460K | 1 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 338K | listed | Janai | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
2,524 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Janaí mean, and where does it come from?
- Janai is a biblical name, traditionally masculine, meaning "God answers." It belongs to a chief of the tribe of Gad mentioned in the Old Testament. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Janaí a male or female name?
- Janaí 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.
- In which country does Janaí have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Janaí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janai.
- Where is Janaí most common?
- Janaí is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Janaí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,524 people named Janaí in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand 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/jana%C3%ADThe 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, “Janaí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.