Jania
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɐniɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jania is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 51K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 128K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 24K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
4,177 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jania 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 4,177 | 1 in 51K | 4.2K | Jania | 60 |
| US United States | — | 2,603 | 1 in 128K | 2.6K | Jania | 104 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 114K | 1 | Jania | 28 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Jania | 11 |
| NI Nicaragua | #928 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jania | 8 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Jania | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 77 | 1 in 66K | 77 | Jania | 11 |
4,177 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Jania 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 Finnish, partitive singular of Jani
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)
- Jania Novalita Situmorangb. 2007IDbadminton player
- Jania GloriodFRbadminton 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).
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 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.2K | #3,109 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 4.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4K | #3,838 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4K | #1,733 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,216 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 77 | #2,518 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #3,109 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Jania mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Jania?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɐniɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Jania a male or female name?
- Jania 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 Jania have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Jania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jania.
- How common is the name Jania?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,177 people named Jania in 2022, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Jania compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Jania is the 928th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jania?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janiaThe 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, “Jania” — the 928th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.