Janne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a diminutive of the female given names Johanne or Marianne
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 188(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 757
- DKDenmark1 in 1.3K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188 (inferred from the name graph)
29,657 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given names Johanne or Marianne
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Janne is read(measured from records)
Janne is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Janne in English.
- Finnish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Janne in Finnish.
- Danish7.8%
a diminutive of the female given names Johanne or Marianne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian7.4%
a diminutive of the female given name Johanne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Janne in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janne 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.
29,657 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Janne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Janne är ursprungligen en smekform till Jan (→ Johannes). Det har börjat ges som offi ciellt namn i ganska sen tid i Sverige. Namnet är vanligt i Finland. I Norge och Danmark är det oftast ett kvinnonamn, en kortform till Johanne (→ Johanna). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 24 juni.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
1 (m.) Swedish: pet form of the male name JAN (1) . 2 (f.) Danish, Norwegian: contracted form of JOHANNA . Top
as a word
In Swedish, a diminutive of the male given names Jan or Johan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In li, a male given name, equivalent to English John
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janne Schafferb. 1945SESwedish musician
- Jan Anderssonb. 1962SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football manager (born 1962)
- Janne Mortilb. 1967CACanadian-American actress
- Janne Suokonautiob. 1968FIFinnish footballer
- Janne Lahtelab. 1974FIFinnish male freestyle skier
- Janne Formoeb. 1975NONorwegian actress
- Janne Niinimaab. 1975FIice hockey player
- Janne Ahonenb. 1977FIFinnish ski jumper
- Janne Niskalab. 1981FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Janne Happonenb. 1984FIFinnish ski jumper
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Janne mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given names Johanne or Marianne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Janne?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Janne?
- In Finland, the national register counted 29,657 people named Janne, about 1 in 188 residents.
- How common is Janne compared with other names?
- In Finland, Janne is the 22nd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
- Is Janne a male or female name?
- Janne is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Janne?
- In the etymology graph, John, Janet and Jack are forms of the same name in other languages; Hannes, Juha and Jukka are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Johanna and Johanne.
- In which country does Janne have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Janne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janne.
- Where is Janne most common?
- Janne is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 188 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Janne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janneThe 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, “Janne” — the 22nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.