Janela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: window.
- UYUruguay1 in 178K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 850K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
120 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
window
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 47M | 20 | Janela | 103 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
120 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Janela 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 Galician, reintegrationist spelling of xanela
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)
- Joey Janelab. 1989USAmerican wrestler
- Adeline Janelab. 1991FRFrench association football player
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 20 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Janela mean, and where does it come from?
- window Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- Is Janela a male or female name?
- Janela 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 Janela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 120 people named Janela, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Janela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janela is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Janela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 120 people named Janela in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Janela?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janelaThe 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, “Janela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.