Jan-Jan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jan-Jan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of John.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 179K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.3M
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.4M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 179K (inferred from the name graph)
≈610 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, 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 Janjan in PH Philippines, US United States, SG Singapore and 2 more.
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(measured from records)
A diminutive of John.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jan-Jan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Janjan | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Jan-Jan | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | Janjan | 3 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 68M | — | Janjan | 43 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Janjan | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Janjan | 5 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Jan-Jan 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 Basque, JAN-JAN . "Comer a hartura. Eguardixan, jan jan babak eta kitto egun guztirako " Etxba Eib . " Jan jan eiñ, decíase, al despedirse, después de comer en casa ajena. Ekarri eztou ezer eiñ, baiña bagoiaz jan-jan eindda " Elexp Berg . Eulijak jan-jan egiñik eguana . Otx 17.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #24,300 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jan-Jan mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of John. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Jan-Jan a male or female name?
- Jan-Jan 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.
- In which country does Jan-Jan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 610 people named Jan-Jan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janjan.
- How common is the name Jan-Jan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Jan-Jan, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Jan-Jan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jan-janThe 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, “Jan-Jan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.