Janae
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 346K
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1M
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 Janae 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
529,888 named Jana
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, 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 Jana in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 3 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 female given name originating as a coinage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 529,888as Jana | 1 in 20 | 530K | — | 7 |
| US United States | #503 | 43,056as Jana | 1 in 7.7K | 43K | Jana | 482 |
| PL Poland | — | 20,961as Yana | 1 in 1.8K | 21K | Jana | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,254as Jana | 1 in 4.4K | 11K | Jana | 69 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,513as Yana | 1 in 38K | 5.5K | Janae | 21 |
| LV Latvia | — | 4,432as Jana | 1 in 424 | 4.4K | — | 40 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 3,896as Jana | 1 in 540 | 3.9K | — | 28 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,839as Jana | 1 in 1.5K | 3.3K | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | #493 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Jana | 60 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 1 in 346K | 815 | Jana | 62 |
| DE Germany | #181 | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Jana | 267 |
529,888 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Janae 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, inflection of Jāna:
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)
- Janae Mertensb. 1979USbadminton player
- Janae Coxb. 1985USAmerican gymnast
- Elise Baumanb. 1990CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Janae Smithb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Janae Gonzalezb. 1997USAmerican futsal player (born 1997)
- Sexyy Redb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1998)
- Janae Jeffersonb. 1999USAmerican softball player (born 2001)
- Janae De Gannesb. 2006Trinidadian athletics competitor (born 2006)
- Janae ShampUSAmerican politician
- Dena J. KingUSnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer; Assistant United States Attorney
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Janae mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Janae have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 530 thousand people named Jana, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Janae a male or female name?
- Janae is a female 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 Janae?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Janice and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; Janetta is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Jean and Jane.
- How common is the name Janae?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 50 people named Janae, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.
- How common is Janae compared with other names?
- In Germany, Janae is the 181st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janae?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janaeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Janae” — the 181st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.