Ianis

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ianis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
  • MDMoldova1 in 4.3K
  • RORomania≈1 in 7.8K

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 Ianis 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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
162 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IanisLatin(measured from records)
იანისGeorgian(measured from records)

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 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ianis 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.

Where Ianis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈2,700 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Ianis18
FR France≈910 est.≈1 in 75K1.4KIanis162
MD Moldova7841 in 4.3K784—3
GE Georgia247as იანის1 in 16K247Ianis4
IT Italy≈120 est.≈1 in 540K15Ianis4
DK Denmark541 in 109K54——

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 prénoms (1900–2024); e-services.md — living population register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ianis is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Romania, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Įanis, Ianís

  • Romanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Ianîș, Ianiș

  • Greek given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Iáni̲s, Ιάνης

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ianis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, dative/ablative plural of iānus

    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)

1980199020002010Ianis Zicu, b. 1983Ianis Delpla, b. 1983Ianis Hagi, b. 1998Ianis Stoica, b. 2002Ianis Malama, b. 2004Ianis Mihart, b. 2004Ianis Gândilă, b. 2006Ianis Târbă, b. 2006Ianis Doană, b. 2007

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 38 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Ianis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.4K#1,904
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—784#383
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—54#2,200
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202223#465
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202415#638
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202311#778
IT ItalyIl Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

Is Ianis a male or female name?
Ianis is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Ianis?
In the etymology graph, John, Ivan and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ianis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Ianis in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ianis.
Where is Ianis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ianis is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ianis?
In Moldova, the national register counted 784 people named Ianis, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Ianis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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