Yanush
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yanush is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 33Kas Януш(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 262Kas Януш
- LVLatvia≈1 in 265K
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 Yanush 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 265K (inferred from the name graph)
7,854 named Janusz, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Януш in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and 1 more and Janusz in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yanush 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 7,854as Janusz | 1 in 4.9K | 177K | Yanush | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Януш | 32 |
| US United States | 1,117as Janusz | 1 in 298K | 2.5K | Janusz | 13 |
| RU Russia | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 262K | #1,332 | Януш | 107 |
| BY Belarus | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Януш | 12 |
| NO Norway | 52as Janusz | 1 in 105K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 30as Janusz | 1 in 186K | 810 | Януш | 1 |
| LV Latvia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 265K | 1 | — | 1 |
7,854 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling janusz. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 76 | #2,510 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 75 | #2,368 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yanush have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Janusz, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yanush?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,854 people named Janusz in 2026, about 1 in 4.9 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/yanushThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yanush”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.