Janie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒeɪni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: , (Ard II 194).
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.2K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 458 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, (Ard II 194).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Nordic Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Janie | 16 |
| US United States | #651 | 39,941 | 1 in 8.3K | 40K | Janie | 458 |
| GB United Kingdom | #784 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 3 | Janie | 166 |
| CA Canada | #684 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 3 | Janie | 172 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Janie | 10 |
| GT Guatemala | #388 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Janie | 5 |
| CU Cuba | #127 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Janie | 6 |
| SG Singapore | #469 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Janie | 29 |
| NZ New Zealand | #489 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Janie | 44 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Janie 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 Polish, locative/vocative singular of Jan
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)
- Janie Porter Barrettb. 1865USHarmon prize winner
- Janie Allanb. 1868GBleading source of funding and a Scottish activist for the militant suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
- Janie Marèseb. 1908FRFrench actress (1908–1931)
- Janie Sellb. 1939USactress; legal secretary
- Janie Bradfordb. 1939USAmerican songwriter
- Janie Frickeb. 1947USAmerican country singer
- Janie Deeb. 1962GBBritish actress
- Janie Haddad Tompkinsb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Janie Wagstaffb. 1974USAmerican swimmer
- Janie Takedab. 1993USAmerican softball 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 47 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Janie?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Janice and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; Janetta is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Jean and Jane.
- What does the name Janie mean, and where does it come from?
- , (Ard II 194). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- In which country does Janie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 196 thousand people named Janie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janie.
- How do you pronounce Janie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒeɪni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Janie a male or female name?
- Janie 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.
- How common is the name Janie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,941 people named Janie in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Janie compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Janie is the 127th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janieThe 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, “Janie” — the 127th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.