Janaki

given name · Latin script

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

Janaki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 25th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: meaning uncertain.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 395K
  • NPNepal≈1 in 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 Janaki 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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,600 named Jonaki, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JanakiLatin(measured from records)
ජානකSinhala(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Janaka in LK Sri Lanka and Jonaki in BD Bangladesh.

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)

Sanskrit: meaning uncertain. It is an epithet of Sita, daughter of King Janaka and the wife of Rama. :

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Janaki 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 Janaki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh—≈6,600 est.≈1 in 25K—Jonaki17
LK Sri Lanka#25≈4,300 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Janaka84
NP Nepal—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 8K—Janaki28
ID Indonesia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 231K—Janaki14
MY Malaysia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 29K—Janaki16
US United States—8421 in 395K802Janaki164
KW Kuwait—≈82 est.≈1 in 36K—Janaki4

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. 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)

Janaki is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Jānaki, Jānakī, Jān̲aki

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, Swedish, German

    Also written Jānakī, Jānaki

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written ஜானகி, Jān̲aki, ಜಾನಕಿ, Jaanaki, Jānaki

  • Russian surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, India, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak

    Also written Янаки, Янакі, Yanaki, Ianaki, Ианаки

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)

Janaki 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.

  • » Annapiirna (७); Gayatri (N); Radhika (४);

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • causing; producing.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In English, An epithet (patronymic) of Sita in Ramayana.

    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)

1850190019502000Yanaki Manaki, b. 1878Janaki Ammal, b. 1897Janakiammal, b. 1899K. P. Janaki Ammal, b. 1917Janaki Venkataraman, b. 1921V. N. Janaki, b. 1923Yanaki Kavrakov, b. 1945Yanaki Stoilov, b. 1958Janki Vasant, b. 1965Yanaki Smirnov, b. 1992

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 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Janaki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Where does the name Janaki come from?
Sanskrit: meaning uncertain. It is an epithet of Sita, daughter of King Janaka and the wife of Rama. : Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What does the name Janaki mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: meaning uncertain.
Is Janaki a male or female name?
Janaki 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.
In which country does Janaki have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Jonaki in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Janaki?
In the United States, the national register counted 842 people named Janaki in 2020, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
How common is Janaki compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Janaki is the 25th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.

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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, “Janaki” — the 25th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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