Jancis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/ʒænsəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jancis is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 722K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4M
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 722K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jancis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 722K | — | Jancis | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Jancis | 47 |
| US United States | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Jancis | 40 |
| PH Philippines | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Jancis | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Jancis | 15 |
| AU Australia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Jancis | 10 |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | 2 |
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: the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)Jancis 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.
English: modern blend of JAN (3) and FRANCES , apparently first used in the novel Precious Bane (1924) by Mary Webb, for the character of Jancis Beguildy, daughter of Felix and Hephzibah.
as a word
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)- Jancis Robinsonb. 1950GBBritish wine writer and journalist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #87,687 |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jancis?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒænsəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jancis a male or female name?
- Jancis 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 Jancis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 people named Jancis in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jancis.
- How common is the name Jancis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1 people named Jancis, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Jancis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jancisThe 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, “Jancis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.