anJou
loc · Latin script
Meaning: province, France; town, Canada
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
anJou is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 452K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.8M
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.3M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 452K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
province, France; town, Canada
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
anJou 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 452K | 21 | anJou | 105 |
| US United States | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | — | 45 |
| CA Canada | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | anJou | 19 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
anJou is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A former county, duchy and province in the northwest of modern-day France.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Anjou (a former county of France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, 1. geogr. pokrajina u SZ Francuskoj, glavni grad Anger 2. pov. francuska grofovska obitelj iz koje su potekli kraljevi u Engleskoj, u Napulju, u Hrvatskoj i Ugarskoj
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Nils Jacob Anjoub. 1781SESwedish politician
- Piotr Anjoub. 1796RUarctic explorer and admiral of Russian Navy (1796–1869)
- Lars Anton Anjoub. 1803SESwedish theologian and church historian (1803-1884)
- Christofer Ludvig Anjoub. 1821SESwedish politician (1821–1896)
- Gustave Anjoub. 1863USAmerican fraudster (1863–1942)
- Sten Anjoub. 1895SESwedish architect
- Åke Anjoub. 1896SESwedish businessperson
- Greta Anjoub. 1919SESwedish actress (1919-1984)
- Erik Anjoub. 1982SESwedish songwriter, record producer and musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 4 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 anJou mean, and where does it come from?
- province, France; town, Canada Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does anJou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people named anJou in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anJou.
- How common is the name anJou?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people in France have anJou as their first surname, about 1 in 452 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anjouThe 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, “anJou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.