Janicke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name, a Polish form of John (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Janicke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 38th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- USUnited States1 in 694K
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 Janicke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahamas, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jänicke in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)from the personal name, a Polish form of John.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Janicke is found
(measured from records)Janicke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jänicke | 90 |
| US United States | — | 479 | 1 in 694K | 479 | Janicke | 142 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 820K | — | Janicke | 15 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Jänicke | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 901K | — | Janicke | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 38as Jaenicke | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
| BS Bahamas | #38 | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Janicke | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Janicke | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Marina Janickeb. 1954DEEast German diver
- Michael T JanickeUSresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Janicke mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name, a Polish form of John. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Janicke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Janicke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jänicke. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Austria and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Janicke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 479 people named Janicke in 2010, about 1 in 694 thousand residents.
- How common is Janicke compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Janicke is the 38th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janicke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janickeThe 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, “Janicke” — the 38th most common surname in the Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.