Janabi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: great
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/ʒanabi/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Janabi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country.
- IQIraq≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 159K
- NONorway1 in 228K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iraq (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)great
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Janabi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQ Iraq | #137 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1 | Janabi | 34 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Janabi | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Janabi | 16 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Janabi | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Janabi | 66 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Janabi | 23 |
| SE Sweden | — | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | Janabi | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 1 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hatif Janabib. 1952IQIraqi poet
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #16,563 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #30,673 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 28 | — |
| IQ Iraq | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #175 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Janabi mean, and where does it come from?
- great Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Janabi?
- In Turkish /ʒanabi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Janabi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Janabi in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janabi.
- How common is the name Janabi?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 35 people named Janabi, about 1 in 292 thousand residents.
- How common is Janabi compared with other names?
- In Iraq, Janabi is the 137th most common surname of 30,136 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janabiThe 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, “Janabi” — the 137th most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.