Janjua
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑnjuə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janjua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 141K
- USUnited States1 in 656K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janjua 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #395 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 1 | Janjua | 90 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 1 in 656K | 706 | Janjua | 189 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Janjua | 103 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Janjua | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Janjua | 76 |
| NO Norway | — | 202 | 1 in 27K | 202 | Janjua | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Janjua | 3 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Labh Janjuab. 1957INIndian bhangra singer (1957–2015)
- Amina Masood Janjuab. 1964PKPakistani activist
- Masood Ahmed Janjuab. 1980PKPakistani businessman missing since 2005
- Tehmina JanjuaPKPakistani career diplomat
- Muhammad Ramzan Saeed Ashraf Janjuaresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 706 | #34,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 507 | #42,720 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 202 | #7,816 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #10,615 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #696 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Janjua?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑnjuə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Janjua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Janjua in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janjua.
- How common is the name Janjua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 507 people named Janjua in 2010, about 1 in 656 thousand residents.
- How common is Janjua compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Janjua is the 395th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janjua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janjuaThe 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, “Janjua” — the 395th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.