Janesa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lord of knowledge
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒənsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janesa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 942K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 158K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lord of knowledge
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janesa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Janesa | 15 |
| US United States | — | 353 | 1 in 942K | 349 | Janesa | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 44 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Janesa | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 870K | — | Janesa | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | Janesa | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #288 | — | — | 1 | Janesa | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nessa Barrettb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 349 | #26,383 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 44 | #50,519 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #77,494 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 13 | — |
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 Janesa mean, and where does it come from?
- lord of knowledge Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Janesa?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒənsə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Janesa a male or female name?
- Janesa 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 Janesa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 692 people named Janesa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janesa.
- Where is Janesa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janesa is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Janesa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 353 people named Janesa in 2020, about 1 in 942 thousand residents.
- How common is Janesa compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Janesa is the 288th most common given name of 1,425 given names 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/janesaThe 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, “Janesa” — the 288th most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.